I had thought always -- and in fact, had written this in my first book; this was a book about gardening -- that lawns were nature under culture's boot, that they were totalitarian landscapes, and that when we mowed them we were cruelly suppressing the species and never letting it set seed or die or have sex.
それまでは いつもこう思っていました　実はこれは最初の本にも書いたんですが ガーデニングの本ですが 芝生というものは文化の下に抑制される自然であり 全体主義的な風景であり 私たちは それを刈る度に 残酷に鎮圧し 実を結ばせず 死ぬことも生殖することもさせない