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On 22/08/2015 8:10 AM, Je�us wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:04:59 -0300, wrote:
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>> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:03:49 +1000, Jeßus > wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 13:37:42 -0700 (PDT), Gregory Morrow
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
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>>>>>
http://i60.tinypic.com/1z18w1x.jpg
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>>>>
>>>> Nice!
>>>
>>> A nice waste of land.

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>> Yes, think how lovely it would be with wild flowers in the wind.

>
> It's a nice piece of land he has there, but with a sterile carpet of
> lawn. I just see such things as a wasted resource <shrug>.
>

Everything is a "resource" to the economist, something to be "reaped".
To the humanist, on the other hand, that lawn is a thing of beauty. The
fact that the lawn is "alive" tells you that it isn't sterile.

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