I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their tho

I am not a lover of lawns. Rather would I see daisies in their thousands, ground ivy, hawkweed, and even the hated plantain with tall stems, and dandelions with splendid flowers and fairy down, than the too-well-tended lawn. – W.H. Hudson, The Book of a Naturalist, 1919

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