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the slow art of bossing nature around until it agrees with you
means the practice of altering the visible features of an outdoor area — planting, grading, hardscaping — to make it more attractive or functional.
from From "landscape," which arrived in English around 1600 from the Dutch "landschap" — a painter's term for a depicted stretch of scenery, made of "land" plus "-schap" (a cousin of English "-ship," meaning condition or quality). So the word first meant a picture of land before it meant the land itself; later still it grew the verb "to landscape," and "landscaping" — the act of arranging real ground as if composing a painting you can walk through.
- property boost
- Good landscaping adds up to 15% to home value
- lawn thirst
- American lawns drink more water than any U.S. crop
- ancient flex
- Babylon's Hanging Gardens were landscaping as power move
- mower carbon
- One hour mowing pollutes like a 100-mile drive
- grass empire
- Turfgrass covers more U.S. land than corn
central park — 843 acres of designed landscape in manhattan, completed 1873
versailles gardens — 2,000 acres of formal gardens at château de versailles, france, designed 1662
ryoan-ji rock garden — 15 rocks on gravel in kyoto temple, japan's most famous zen garden since 1450s