The joy of mowing takes on many forms and there are countless ways people are inspired by the natural beauty of their yards and landscapes. For some, it’s the smell of fresh cut grass. For others it may be the way the sunrise glistens the morning dew. Then there are those who draw inspiration from memorized quotes and story passages, favorite poems, or song lyrics.
Here are some of our favorites:
“Good people don’t spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog.”
―Alan Furst, New York
“God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the one day each year that really represents Beginning!”
―Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“I enjoy painting, cutting the lawn and working in the garden when I have time. That’s therapy for me. I enjoy working with my hands.”
―Billy Williams, pro baseball player
“We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe gold ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And water the furrows with tears.
It is not just as we take it,
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Life’s field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.”
―Goethe
“Living in a small town you couldn’t go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.”
―Larry the Cable Guy
“I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.”
—Lettie Cowman, Iowa
“If having a beautiful lawn means putting up warning signs several times a year to keep children and pets off of it, it’s probably a good idea to look into alternatives.”
―Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
“The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.”
―Maxine, pro wrestler
“There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.”
―George Jones
Here’s a song lyric we like:
“When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench I can always hear them talk
Me, I’m just a lawn mower
You can tell me by the way I walk”
(Trivia: name that song and the band who wrote it. An extra lyrical hint: “Keep them mowing blades sharp!”)
Here are a couple of poems we like:
The fresh cut grass, that summer scent
That smell of summer, Heaven sent
I used to squeeze it in my fingers
Shreds of green, its smell still lingers.
The whirring blades just spinning round
As bales of grass grew on the ground I’d scoop it up and throw it high
Then take a dive and then just lie, Or dive right into all that green
And like a magnet, stuck between
Every hairand every pore,
In all the clothes I ever wore
Would smell of grass and I somehow
Still find wee bits, yes, even now.
—Fresh Cut Grass by Paul Colvin
The mower stalled, twice; kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades, Killed.
It had been in thelong grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
—The Mower by Philip Larkin
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”
—Thomas Jefferson
We’ve heard stories of people framing favorite quotes and hanging them on their kitchen wall, or even out in the garage next to where they store their lawn equipment. If you send us a photo, we’ll be sure to share it.
Answer to the trivia question: I Know What I Like by Genesis.
