385 sats \ 0 replies \ @3316e3696d 14 Feb \ on: Why do we all have lawns? culture
Generations of building new buildings in already cleared pasture, we equate it in our genetic memory as "the hometead".
It wasn't a problem with 1/8th the population, when every inch powered livestock. Now they are, in most cases, but a comforting souvenir from a different time.