- published: 15 Jun 2016
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A lawn is an area of aesthetic and recreational land planted with grasses or other durable plants and can be defined by four characteristics: It is composed only of grass species; it is subject to weed and pest control; it is subject to practices aimed at maintaining its green color; and it is regularly mowed to ensure an acceptable length . Low ornamental meadows in natural landscaping styles are a contemporary option of a lawn. In recreational contexts, the specialised names turf, pitch, field or green may be used, depending on the sport and the continent.
The term lawn, referring to a managed grass space, dates to no earlier than the 16th century. Tied to suburban expansion and the creation of the household aesthetic, the lawn is an important aspect of the interaction between the natural environment and the constructed urban and suburban space.
Lawns are a common feature of private gardens, public landscapes and parks in many parts of the world. They are created for aesthetic pleasure, as well as for sports or other outdoor recreational use. Lawns are useful as a playing surface both because they mitigate erosion and dust generated by intensive foot traffic and because they provide a cushion for players in sports such as rugby, football, soccer, cricket, baseball, golf, tennis, hockey and lawn bocce.
Who's that out on the lawn old and forgettable and all liquored up? Sometimes it seem like the farther you climb the further you fall.
Go away. Are you looking at me? I'm older than you. I don't mean to say that I'm always this way, it's just something I like to do. I'm looking out windows watching my days away, waiting for a change to come around. Soon i'll be on the lawn. I'll be upside down, bent over laughing my life out, in deeper than the rutt I'm in right now. You lock yourself up inside your head with your hands down at your sides and all the things you never did piled up beside you. Man, it's your own life and there's no reason why we should sit here and watch it all fade away. You're only as old as you want to be.