Abandon Mower Rites Poem by Saiom Shriver

Footnote:

We trample grass and prize the flowers of May,
Yet grass is green when flowers do fade away.

-Robert Southwell-
(one of the many Catholics, Quakers, gypsies etc. drawn and quartered by Bloody Queen Elizabeth)

Michel de Montaigne:
It is humankind's duty to respect all life. Not only animals have feelings but even also
trees and plants.

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
-George Bernard Shaw-

Why pluck a flower and hasten her death
-Sathya Sai Baba-

66 reasons not to mow

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Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird The Secret Lives of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man at the top of the NY Times best seller list for many weeks