The first thing I would say is . . . rip out that stupid Kentucky bluegrass and put in native grass. Use buffalo grass, which is native grass. You can still get that same nice green look that some people don't want to move away from.
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Related In order for grass to grow and be green, it has to be watered often. If the sky is al- ways sunny an... CHARLENA JACKSON We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; yet the grass is green when the flower fades away. R. SOUTHWELL My first job was cutting grass. In Miami, this grass grows everywhere. You just get the lawn mower o... BARRY JENKINS A people without history is like the wind on the buffalo grass. SIOUX SAYING A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass. AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB I just have to get used to it. The outfield grass is different than the infield grass. I learned tha... ADRIAN GONZALEZ Some say that grass is for cows. I guess clay is for making bricks. GREG RUSEDSKI When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They di... LARRY WALL A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things w... MICHAEL POLLAN One of the nice things about the United States is that, wherever you go, people speak the same langu... DEBORAH TANNEN The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and s... MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there i... BIBLE On the reverse, if you get by that one man, it's green grass. But we didn't get by that one man. DWIGHT JONES This death expert said it's everything underground that makes grass so green. That dead things make ... ELIZABETH SCOTT You look out some afternoon and there's Tom out mowing the grass, or he's rolling the infield, or ju... PETE DREXLER The children had had an argument once about whether there was more grass in the world or more sand, ... DAPHNE DU MAURIER For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and... BIBLE Yeah, he shoots some really great grass. Remember Days of Heaven and Richard Gere? They were in gras... WES STUDI What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball. BILL SHANKLY My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're te... HARMON KILLEBREW You have two choices. You can have unlimited, large-scale events, or you can have nice grass, but yo... ADRIAN BENEPE Because of the grass and open face, I take one more club for shots from the rough, unless the ball i... ERNIE ELS In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange. JIM DAVIS The biggest variable was the turf. On grass, passes that would be right at our feet scooted away fro... BOB SCHUCHARDT It would be equally reasonable to say that sheep are born
carnivorous, and everywhere nibble grass. EMILE FAGUET Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows... CHRIS DISANO DAVENPORT It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But i... D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass". NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever tol... J.D. SALINGER May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave. FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass ... Wet grass is slippery. GREG MADDUX The dirt was OK, but once you hit the grass... Wet grass is slippery. GREG MADDUX I can assure you after we get it in, most people won't even know it's synthetic grass. DUANE BURK I was just looking to get a first down and things opened up. The linebackers kind of ran over the to... CADILLAC WILLIAMS Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so mu... ALLEN KLEIN We all start from “naive realism,” i.e., the doctrine that things are what they seem. We th... BERTRAND RUSSELL First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in bu... GAIL SIMMONS You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through. ILYA EHRENBURG You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through ILYA EHRENBURG When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and... SAM MENDES The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green... ERIK PEVERNAGIE The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visit... DUKE SNIDER The first step in reforming appetite is going from processed food to real food. Then, if you can aff... MICHAEL POLLAN David played incredible to make the final in his first ever grass-court tournament - that's even bet... LLEYTON HEWITT The murmur that springs
From the growing of grass. EDGAR ALLAN POE People need to keep in mind that the grass is fuel right now. It's not vegetation. It's fuel. Even t... MARC FLAKE Dale is somewhat community-minded. He does have a raw water tap ... that he could use the heck out o... KATHY FINLEY When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful,... PHILIPP MEYER I think it was a lot like Bluegrass Cat and First Samurai last week in the Blue Grass, that she just... DAVID HOFMANS I walked across the two feet of drive to the lawn and stepped slowly onto the grass. It wasn't a wil... FAITH HUNTER Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured... LEO TOLSTOY One of the most important things I'm glad we did and am proud of is that we don't have any r... LISA LING When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers. AFRICAN PROVERB When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers. KIKUYU PROVERB Before, if you asked somebody about outdoor carpeting, they thought ?fake green grass.? That?s just ... LORI WALLACE My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You... HARMON KILLEBREW I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscraper... ANDRE LEON TALLEY The grass just didn't take. By mid-July there was more dirt than grass. It reached the point that we... BRYAN WICKLINE Nothing is meaningless on earth. God has even made the grass a food for some animals. He has created... MD. ZIAUL HAQUE I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again, look for me under... WALT WHITMAN Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's wher... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no... MARK DRISCOLL The grass is not 'greener' on the other side – it is just another shade of green. ANNIKA SORENSEN Right now, probably looking forward to green grass and the lawn mowers coming. BILL PAULSON The hare sits snug in leaves and grass, / And laughs to see the green man pass. HEINRICH HOFFMAN if grass can find a way to grown through the grass on footpaths, trust me, you can find a way to do ... HELENA JEAN One of the most important things, actually, when you're playing on grass, is to move. MARAT SAFIN The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do ... ROBERT FULGHUM A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars w... CARL SAGAN Grass is right there, man...Who want it? DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they&... ADAM BEACH 'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant... KEN GOLDBERG Ben Caxton, I will lie right here in the grass and starve before I will get up to push a button that... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I don't see how those people are going to get in and out of there without having to drive on the gra... ERIC PETERSON He just missed me, ... I would have scored. But you never know. I don't think there was anything but... BRAYLON EDWARDS Everyone's first concern is always the grass or their crops, but trees can suffer too. JIM ANGEL The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat JOHN MCNULTY We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ALEXANDER SMITH We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead ALEXANDER SMITH We bury love,
Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
That is a thing to weep for, not the dea... ALEXANDER SMITH We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead ALEXANDER SMITH Grass is what soccer was meant to be played in. I'm ecstatic about keeping grass here at Robertson S... BILL SOLBERG When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled AFRICAN PROVERB They say that the grass is greener on the other side…fortunately for me, I’m a City girl & I lov... N. S. COLE We learned that if you organize at the grass roots, you can beat the big boys. CAROLYN BOYLE stinking from smoked salmon and covered in grass stains from playing in the park, (they) are not goi... JERRY SEINFELD This is the kind of animal this is. You get a line around it, and you think you have all the hot spo... C.J. NORVELL The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences hav... ROBERT FULGHUM I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. ELLA MAILLART The facilities here are nice. We wanted to practice on grass and we wanted to get acclimated to the ... KARL DORRELL There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. THOMAS JEFFERSON I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it a... ANDY WARHOL Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers. DAN QUISENBERRY There's a lot of thick green grass on it, and it's pretty hard. SHANE WARNE On grass, it can be the small things that decide a match. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ He looked at the blue sky above and the green grass below and he knew he would always love this worl... AVIJEET DAS What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter... ERNEST DIMNET What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter... CROWFOOT In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which gets the first plastic worm out of th... WILLIAM E BILL VAUGHAN
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SALMAN KHURSHID What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second,... SALMAN RUSHDIE If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance numbe... SALMAN RUSHDIE I think that we live in a very timid age, and a part of our timidity arises from our unwillingness t... SALMAN RUSHDIE I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder. SALMAN RUSHDIE It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now und... SALMAN RUSHDIE Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside re... SALMAN RUSHDIE It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war... SALMAN RUSHDIE And now, as if to finish things off, the Himalayan winter is setting in, and the greatest calamity o... SALMAN RUSHDIE As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn... SALMAN RUSHDIE What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist SALMAN RUSHDIE Have you noticed the physical resemblance between Imran Khan and Gaddafi? If you were making a movie... SALMAN RUSHDIE Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You'v... SALMAN RUSHDIE I was close to getting married a long time ago. But it didn't happen, and since then it has not ... SALMAN KHAN A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shap... SALMAN RUSHDIE A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, sha... SALMAN RUSHDIE Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction. SALMAN RUSHDIE If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously ... 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