Ev­ery­where I went I preached the abo­li­tion of lawn cul­ture, say­ing that it was an im­i­ta­tion green cre­ated for hu­man be­ings at the ex­pense of na­ture and was noth­ing more than a rem­nant of the ar­ro­gant aris­to­cratic cul­ture of Eu­rope.
 Masanobu Fukuoka, “Sawing Seeds in the Desert”