One Chinese writer of the 1930s who was walking through an English landscape garden wondered, on seeing the spreading slopes of grazing land, why civilized people should want to give up most of the land to green grass.
已故建築學者童寯在三○年代暢遊英式園林時，看見大片的牧草緩坡，也曾經頗為不解：為什麼文明人會把園中大部份的空間，都貢獻給綠草地？