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A ROLLING STONE IN THE GHETTO
OP DE GROTE STILLE HOMO
DEUS HEIDE!!!
THE
PRECIOUS LAWN
WAS OFTEN THE SETTING
FOR IMPORTANT CELEBRATIONS AND SOCIAL EVENTS,
AND AT ALL OTHER TIMES WAS STRICTLY OFF LIMITS!
To this day, in countless palaces, government buildings and public venues
a stern sign commands people to 'Keep off the grass'? In YaNoha's former Oxford college
the entire quad was formed of a large, attractive lawn, on which they were allowed to walk or sit
on only one day a year! On any other day, woe to the poor student whose foot desecrated the holy turf?!!
Royal palaces and ducal chateaux turned the lawn into a symbol of authority! When in the late modern period Kings
were toppled & dukes guillotined, the new presidents & prime ministers kept the lawns. Parliaments, supreme courts,
presidential residences & other public buildingsi ncrea- singly proclaimed théir power in row of neat green blades.
Simultaneously, lawns conquered the world of sports. For thousands of years humans played on almost every conceivable kind of ground, from ice to deser. Yet in the last two centuries, the really important games - such as football or tennis - are played on lawns?
Provided of course, you have money! In the FAVELAS of Rio de Janeiro the future gene-ration of Brazilian football is kicking makeshift balls over sand & dirt. But in the wealthy suburbs, the sons of the rich are enjoying them-selves over meticulously kept lawns...
Humans thereby came to identify lawns with political power, social status & economic wealth.
No wonder that in the 19th century the rising bourgeoisie enthusiastically adopted the LAWN!?
At first only bankers, lawyers & industrialists could afford such luxuries at their private residences.
Yet when the Industrial Revolutin broadened the Middle Class and gave rise to the lawn-mówer & then
the automatic sprinkler, millions of families could suddenly afford a home turf?!
In American suburbia a spick-and-span lawn
switched from being a rich person's luxury into a middle-class necessity!?
This was when a new rite was added to the suburban liturgy.
After Sunday morning service at church, many people devotedly mowed their lawns.
Walking along the streets, you could quickly ascertain the wealth & position of every family by the size and quality of their turf.
There is no surer sign that something at the Joneses' is wrong
than a neglected lawn in the front yard.
Grass
is nowadays
the most widespread
crop in the USA after maize
& wheat, & the lawn industry (plants, manure,
mowers, sprinklers, gardeners) accounts
for millions of
dollars every
year.
A ROLLING STONE IN THE GHETTO
OP DE GROTE STILLE HOMO
DEUS HEIDE!!!
THE
PRECIOUS LAWN
WAS OFTEN THE SETTING
FOR IMPORTANT CELEBRATIONS AND SOCIAL EVENTS,
AND AT ALL OTHER TIMES WAS STRICTLY OFF LIMITS!
To this day, in countless palaces, government buildings and public venues
a stern sign commands people to 'Keep off the grass'? In YaNoha's former Oxford college
the entire quad was formed of a large, attractive lawn, on which they were allowed to walk or sit
on only one day a year! On any other day, woe to the poor student whose foot desecrated the holy turf?!!
Royal palaces and ducal chateaux turned the lawn into a symbol of authority! When in the late modern period Kings
were toppled & dukes guillotined, the new presidents & prime ministers kept the lawns. Parliaments, supreme courts,
presidential residences & other public buildingsi ncrea- singly proclaimed théir power in row of neat green blades.
Simultaneously, lawns conquered the world of sports. For thousands of years humans played on almost every conceivable kind of ground, from ice to deser. Yet in the last two centuries, the really important games - such as football or tennis - are played on lawns?
Provided of course, you have money! In the FAVELAS of Rio de Janeiro the future gene-ration of Brazilian football is kicking makeshift balls over sand & dirt. But in the wealthy suburbs, the sons of the rich are enjoying them-selves over meticulously kept lawns...
Humans thereby came to identify lawns with political power, social status & economic wealth.
No wonder that in the 19th century the rising bourgeoisie enthusiastically adopted the LAWN!?
At first only bankers, lawyers & industrialists could afford such luxuries at their private residences.
Yet when the Industrial Revolutin broadened the Middle Class and gave rise to the lawn-mówer & then
the automatic sprinkler, millions of families could suddenly afford a home turf?!
In American suburbia a spick-and-span lawn
switched from being a rich person's luxury into a middle-class necessity!?
This was when a new rite was added to the suburban liturgy.
After Sunday morning service at church, many people devotedly mowed their lawns.
Walking along the streets, you could quickly ascertain the wealth & position of every family by the size and quality of their turf.
There is no surer sign that something at the Joneses' is wrong
than a neglected lawn in the front yard.
Grass
is nowadays
the most widespread
crop in the USA after maize
& wheat, & the lawn industry (plants, manure,
mowers, sprinklers, gardeners) accounts
for millions of
dollars every
year.
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