Cutting grass

[lumineth Realm Lord]

Does cutting grass disturb spirits?

I trim cemeteries, and have often wondered if it would be better for the dead to let the grass grow. Plus, it looks really pretty this time of year.

 

[Morell]

In my opinion, it might disturb them, if it were all of sudden, but on a palce where the grass is being cut every year again and again, they already got used to it and ignore it. It just happens often and became all too familiar scene to bother them.
Showing them respect in some form when cutting grass is still not a bad thing.

 

[borbponderer]

Lawns in general are a heinous crime against nature. But just tidying things up a bit only really results in a temporary disturbance. Just don't be too over zealous. Leave plenty of cover for the birds and the bugs, and the other spirits will thank you too.

 

[Morell]

Lawns in general are a heinous crime against nature. But just tidying things up a bit only really results in a temporary disturbance. Just don't be too over zealous. Leave plenty of cover for the birds and the bugs, and the other spirits will thank you too.

I'm hesitant to agree. Here where I live, big wild grass eating mammals are extinct, but their presence, where they live, does have an effect...

 

[borbponderer]

I'm hesitant to agree. Here where I live, big wild grass eating mammals are extinct, but their presence, where they live, does have an effect...

Grass in itself is ok, it's all the neatly manicured and chemically treated lawns I can't stand. It's a freakish obsession. Then there are the people who install fake plastic lawns...

Parts of Britain are overrun with deer and domestic sheep. No chance for the temperate rainforest to grow back in the west because every new sapling gets eaten. What we really need is the re-introduction of apex predators, but the countryside lobby would never stand for it. Even lynx are proving highly controversial. Even beavers.

 

[Morell]

Grass in itself is ok, it's all the neatly manicured and chemically treated lawns I can't stand. It's a freakish obsession. Then there are the people who install fake plastic lawns...

Parts of Britain are overrun with deer and domestic sheep. No chance for the temperate rainforest to grow back in the west because every new sapling gets eaten. What we really need is the re-introduction of apex predators, but the countryside lobby would never stand for it. Even lynx are proving highly controversial. Even beavers.

I agree. I dislike plastic grass myself. So F lazy stuff. Since every bit of land belongs to someone here, it's impossible for people to allow nature to have its way like anywhere. We have national parks that are protected, even with restricted access to protect the rare lakes... stupid since the guards of the park prevent others from bathing in them only to take a bath themselves. You can't escape humans.

 

[borbponderer]

I agree. I dislike plastic grass myself. So F lazy stuff. Since every bit of land belongs to someone here, it's impossible for people to allow nature to have its way like anywhere. We have national parks that are protected, even with restricted access to protect the rare lakes... stupid since the guards of the park prevent others from bathing in them only to take a bath themselves. You can't escape humans.

Just the thought of plastic grass makes me think murderous thoughts. And here we are in sixth mass extinction. Humans are plague honestly. And if you were to find somewhere pristine to escape to, you immediately become part of the problem just by being there. Human exceptionalism is baked into all of our most fundamental assumptions, and infects everything that we do. I get quite worked up about all this...

 

[Durward]

Just the thought of plastic grass makes me think murderous thoughts. And here we are in sixth mass extinction. Humans are plague honestly. And if you were to find somewhere pristine to escape to, you immediately become part of the problem just by being there. Human exceptionalism is baked into all of our most fundamental assumptions, and infects everything that we do. I get quite worked up about all this...

If all the crappy humans went extinct today, full ecological recovery would take 3 to 10 million years. Tell me humans aren't a frikken cancer.

 

[borbponderer]

If all the crappy humans went extinct today, full ecological recovery would take 3 to 10 million years. Tell me humans aren't a frikken cancer.

I know right? every life human represents a few decades of infantile urges and desires, yet the consequences are measured in geological time. Even in a billion years from now when it's too hot for life to exist, the memory of our crap will will remain embedded in the rock. That already started to happen, new rocks forming with plastic and ring pulls and other shit embedded in them.