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.
我经常想到，实际上，在我的第一本书里也写道-- 这是本关于园艺的书-- 草坪是被文明践踏的自然 它们是带有极权色彩的风景。 当我们修割它们时，我们残忍的压制着这些物种 从不让它们结籽，或死亡，或交配。