And what about those lawns? We learned that plants do experience fear. That suggests that lawns represent a great deal of regularly scheduled trauma for the mowed grass surrounding almost every suburban home. Does this have any discernable adverse effect on the humans who live in the midst of this regularly scheduled carnage?

It is actually the case that plants have feelings and suffer not only discomfort but great fear when threatened. There is a primitive consciousness that favors survival, so they will know when they are under threat and when they have been injured will feel it and respond in kind, and this will affect the consciousness of the grass itself when it knows it is under siege again and again and again and loses half of its being or more with all that trimming. There is more to the story in how it came to be that grass was such a fixture in dressing up properties. It is a simple and low-cost solution and has a long-standing tradition in the old country, where large lawns were planted and maintained as a kind of safety buffer zone around royal dwellings and castles. It was easiest to keep the land relatively free of tall foliage by such plantings and this provided good visibility so marauders could not approach without being seen. This also has visual appeal in its own right by the clean, fresh appearance of a sea of green growing happily in the sun. Although of a sameness, it has a natural beauty of its own. This is in contrast to the many ugly plants considered to be weeds that are often more aggressive and will tend to overtake other plants and choke them out and then there will be a field of relative ugliness that may even have a large percentage of thorns and thistles that render the land unusable and without a visual appeal at all. Such plants are not native to the Earth and are not part of Creator’s Plans but were introduced by the interlopers, so this was another level of safety by the imposition of plots of grass. It is a way to dress up a property and exclude the ugliness of the interlopers if only as an icon of their depredation of the Earth and its inhabitants by fighting back weeds and maintaining attractive plantings to be the dominant species on display. In many ways, the Earth has been spoiled and cannot go back to a natural balance because there are too many unnatural species that are abundant. So having lawns is a kind of coping strategy that provides the appearance of natural beauty even though it might not be truly natural in having such large tracts of uniformity with a single species of plant.