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I just found out that the guy who makes "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't" is also and ex NYC bike messenger (like me) and somehow this just ... it explains so much.
Being a messenger causes you to see the city from a rare vantage point. You feel like a blood cell in a vast gothic organism. But it also engenders a kind of fundamental cantankerousness that makes for the strangest kind of naturalist perspective.
I should write more about that some time...
@futurebird Please do write about it.
@futurebird I remember bike messengers in DC, think there was a movie about it.
Sadly the fax and email killed off the job by time I was old enough to try.
I was a bike messenger in NYC for about a week ca. 2000/01. I quit when I realized that, even in that short amount of time, I had already mostly stopped yelling at drivers -- making them actually hear me and recognize that I was there -- and was getting used to just adjusting my actions to compensate for their dangerous behavior. I thought, "I'm already getting complacent, and going to wind up paralyzed or dead like this". So I dropped it. It was fun while it lasted, but I hadn't yet figured out how to actually make it pay, so no great loss.
"Nothing defines sense of place like the native plants that grow there. We live in an age where place almost means nothing, because in a homogenous consumer culture every place looks the same - just as ugly and bland as the rest. Killing the lawn allows us to restore that sense of place to where we live, but more importantly it allows us to grow the plants that once formed the living skin of the land that we live on, and it allows us to develop a bond and connection with the living world around us, as human beings have done for hundreds of thousands of years."
True that–deeply so. And also shows us the fauna that fed on and pollinated such plants. Living on forgotten margins of our suburban wastelands, they come back and seize any chance such as a rewilded lawn. If only we let nature do its thing.
@albertcardona @futurebird
If you live in California check out the excellent calscape.org.
Even if you don't it's fun to look at.
@albertcardona @futurebird Sense of place, eh? I couldn't even find out what continent the blogger is from.
The fact that you can’t is perhaps the biggest giveaway that it’s from the USA.
@albertcardona @futurebird in our case the lawn is already two thirds moss with the occasional mushroom. With the native plant life being sycamore trees and ivy which we try not to let reproduce.
* #LloydDangle 's #TroubleTown Intensifies *