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ISAIAH: BREAK NOT THE BRUISED REED
THE FIFTH ANGEL OF REVELATION: HARM NO GREEN LIVING THING
 

.GROW FREE FOOD .PREVENT MOWER ACCIDENTS ..PROTECT SAPLING TREES .CREATE
OXYGEN .SAVE TIME . CONSERVE FUEL ..SAVE MONEY .GUARD FREEDOM .INVOKE RAIN
. STABILIZE WEATHER PATTERNS . STOP MUDSLIDES .NOISE BUFFER
. DIVERT FLOODS . FOSTER WILDLIFE HABITAT .. FILTER AIR

(not in the order of importance)
In the last few years the EPA has joined the environmental groups promoting nonmowing. Their site is http://www.epa.gov
.. type in 'natural landscaping' in search to bring up many sites. The Green Party http://www.greens.org and many Libertarians also support nonmowing.

I: ENVIRONMENTAL (THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANIPULATION)
1. REFORESTATION When one stops mowing, land becomes meadow and then
thicket and then woods. reforesting the world.
2. OXYGEN CREATION This extra greenery creates oxygen. The average
tree creates 5 pounds of oxygen daily.
3. AIR PURIFICATION And purifies the air through leaf filtration a. particulate matter b.car fumes c.noxious gases d.other airborn toxins. Removal of carbon dioxide by plants ameliorates pollution.
4. TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION Warms the world's winters and cools the
summers. There is a 50 degree difference between 70 degree equatorial rainforest and 120 degree desert. Each blade of grass is a little air conditioner. A world without drought, flood, famine, freezes, and killer heat
can be eliminated by literally covering the world with trees.
5. RAIN INVOCATION
Greenery calls down rain. Bayard Webster of the NY Times wrote that each mature tree evaporates 40 gallons of moisture daily (much greater amounts for older trees.) All greenery is involved in the raincycle.
The drought and consequent starvation in N. Korea was related to the
cutting of nearly all trees for fuel. (as is present drought in the NW US). (NPR Sept 98 and other sources)
6. DEW PRESERVATION Preserves dew. Not only do green spires and leaves  act as masts around which dew can gather, but the more greenery the longer the dew lasts.
7. NOISE BUFFER Weaves a noise buffer which screens out unpleasant traffic
8. NOISE PREVENTION  Ends the peace-fracturing sound of the lawnmower. Some communities
have noise ordinances which prevent mowing during normal sleeping hours.
9. VISUAL BEAUTY Multiplies the beauty of diversity
10. FRAGRANCE  Multiply the fragrance in the air.
11. HEALING GREEN Nonmowing creates optical healing by creating more greenery. Research
has proven that looking on the jade and forest greens reduces heartbeat.
12. LANDFILL ECONOMY Letting lawns grow wild reduces pressure on  landfills..by not adding leaves to overburdened systems (and saves the fuel and wages of collection releasing workers for the
labor of their hearts). (NPR Sept 1: methane gases leach from landfill
through water into basements) As the world evolves away from treekilling, sawdust piles which are a byproduct
of the lumber industry will be removed, making the earth safer for children.
13. FUEL CONSERVATION Conserves fuel a. unused in unused mowers
b. As evergreen trees break cold winter winds and shroud
dwellings they are natural insulation.
14. HYDROCARBON REDUCTION Prevents hydrocarbon mower emission from
polluting the air. Many media outlets such as WEWS, WNIR and others are
passing on the EPA recommendation that lawns not be mowed when there
is great humidity and heat.
15. CARBON DIOXIDE Greenery which takes in carbon dioxide and breathes out
oxygen reduces gases toxic to humans.
15a. METHANE GAS and toxic gases are purified by leaf action.
16. TORNADO PREVENTION Unstable heat is the main factor in tornados.
Greenery which reduces the temperature 30 degrees in forest areas prevents
tornados.
17. MUDSLIDE PREVENTION: The roots of living plants absorb great amounts
of water and prevent mudslides.
18. FLOOD PREVENTION:
A. On river banks and everywhere, tree, plant, bush, and vine roots are
flood preventers.
As David Kidd of Canton, planter of more than a million trees, has stated,
the bigger and older the tree the more work it does. (The 900 year old
oaks with their huge diameters are a lot more precious to Mother Earth
than skinny young trees.  http://www.freetree.org
B. Ohio Public Radio David C. Barnett Sept 9th: reported on reduction
of impervious surface by reducing concrete and adding greenery.
(The hard asphalt, concrete, and rooftops create more runoff and flooding.)
C. Bricks and stones in roads are better for the environment than are
concrete and asphalt. They allow rain through the inter-brick space
and have less blistering heat.
Angel strips not devil strips
(Planting grape trellises over highways re-greens the earth and
creates food.)
19. PREVENT DESERTIFICATION Only reforestation can prevent desertification.
This is the conclusion of Patrick Velasquez of US Agency For International
Development and most other environmentalists.
We used to think a pine cone was one seed, but apparently it is hundreds.
20. REDUCE CHEMICAL POLLUTION: Radio network show Public Interest
October 7 featuring Rodale author: Chemically treated lawns are grass
high on drugs.:
21. FASTEST CLEANUP OF TOXIC DUMPS
Green island sanctuaries of unmolested plants, insects, and wildlife
are a protection against the biotech manipulations of the environment.
22. WATERSHED PROTECTION
The more greenery, plants, vines, trees, and bushes.. the more the watershed, reservoirs, and lakes and ponds, brooks and streams are  protected.
a. Arsenic is a byproduct of the pressed wood industry. Arsenic is poisonous in the waters, and like
other industrial pollutants such as mercury, chromium and polychlorinated biphenols  is concentrated in the flesh of fishes.
23. BIODIVERSITY
Nonmowing or letting God be the landscaper creates biodiversity
and its many benefits (and benefirs) rather than monoculture.
(Loggers last year caused the death of David Chain, Earth First
tree activist. Write efmc@asis.com or call 707 923 2114 Andy Caffrey) \
24. FIRE PREVENTION
In March of 2001, widescale drought in the NW has been reported. Destruction of greenery is one cause
of this. Trees' evaporation is necessary in cloud formation.
25. FLOOD PREVENTION  Nonmowing causes natural reforestation. Tree roots on river banks prevent
floods.
II HUMAN RIGHTS: (Numbers 19 through 31)
1. FEEDING THE HUNGRY: FOOD CREATION Prevents famine by giving a
cornucopia of free food to the planet Orchards are 400 times as
productive per acre as slaughterhouses..Dr. Faust, former chief of
the USDA Fruit Labs, cited centenarian orchards of apple trees dropping
two tons each of food. This is 400,000 lbs per acre as compared to
100 to 1000 lbs of food for meat, 10,000 lbs for dairy, 80,000 lbs.
for acre. The 400 to l ratio is only the first step. Tri level
agriculture.. with bean and other vines around the tree trunks and
other foodyielding plants in the interarboreal spaces.. yield even
more. This also can be multiplied by those areas which have 2 or
3 growing seasons..e.g. Southern California.
2. PREVENTION OF DEATH AND INJURY Prevents in the U.S. alone, 75,000
accidents and some fatalities annually caused by mowers and
harvesters, and around the world millions of accidents eliminated.
2b. Ravines are generally more protected from mowing, as there is wider
recognition of the danger of mowing.
2c. When grass is mowed on hillsides, when wet or exceedingly dry
it can cause slipping accidents.
3. PREVENTION OF HEART ATTACKS As non shoveling of snow can prevent
winter heart attacks nonmowing can sometimes prevent summer heart attacks.
4. FREEDOM     Health departments are reducing the forced crewcutting of lawns
 and the rending of
Mother Nature's garments . See below for further info.
5. EMPTY JAILS Saves money otherwise spent on jailing people (see above)
6. PRIVACY Creates a privacy screen. Ways to avoid grass (a transitional
plant unless land is constantly mowed) include
a. pachysandra b. myrtle and other ground cover c. grape vine trellises
d. evergreen trees and shrubs as natural fences e. berry bushes as natural
boundaries
7. HERBAL REMEDIES Nonmowing allows healing extracts and seeds to  flourish, e.g. milkthistle seeds, which regenerate cirrhosis-afflicted livers. The active ingredient is silymarin. (Herbology student  embyrne@students.wisc.edu is a non mower)
8. KEEPS WASPS FRIENDLY prevents wasp stings and hive attacks as their
homes are destroyed.
9. ECONOMICS
a. saves money otherwise spent on fuel
b. Saves money otherwise spent on young trees.
c. Fruit trees ave money spent on food.
10. TIME ECONOMY frees human time hours for enjoyable priorities
a. no gas procurement time, no mowing time, no raking time.
11. AMERICAN HERITAGE: The Native American culture never  spent time mowing Mother Earth. Her
green cover is her garment. Lawn mowing is a fairly recent thing. The  original lawn mowers were sheep and other animals later slaughtered for their flesh. The Time Life Gardening Yearbook mentions the 'chipped monotypic
layer of bluegrass', the crewcut which is called a lawn. Other ecologists speak about the hazards of monoculture.
12. FREE CONCERTS Cicadas and crickets will give free concerts. Fireflies will put on silent fireworks. Buttercups will save chalices of dew for butterflies who in turn will cool the earth with the slight  breeze from their fanning wings.
13. WEED KILLER OR HERBICIDE use (Diane Rehm Show Sept 1) causes
childhood and other environmental pollutant based cancers. Some leaches
into the water system. Some is directly smeared onto skin.
14. INSECTICIDE BASED CANCERS: Insecticides were developed as weapons
in WW 2. At the end of the war, chemical companies wanted new markets.
These insecticides cause cancer. (NPR Sept 1)
15. HEALING: Studies of recovering gall bladder patients reveal that those looking on a garden heal faster than those not. (BJ 6 6 2000) There are now herbal therapists at Univ of Kansas, Rutgers, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech. Those who look on living green have reduced blood pressure. The plant yarrow makes children in its proximity less agressive within a few moments. Lavender increases memory and concentration.  An ancient vedic parable says that to be healed one should look upon green.
Rather than paint the world that color, a sage says 'put on green glasses'. (The best green glasses are living in an environment of
green.)
III ANIMAL RIGHTS:
1. WILDLIFE HABITAT Reprovides a home for wildlife, both those not endangered and those which are.
Keeps birds from flying away when the power motors are started.
2 ANIMAL RIGHTS Protects insects, redwinged blackbirds and other living  creatures nesting in ground cover, and prevents the mastication deaths of  millions of small field animals chewed up in harvesters..
(Sometimes the tiny feet of these animals can be seen in cans of food.)  In Numbers 22, God causes
a donkey to speak about the beatings of her human 'owner'.
3 PRESERVE WILDLIFE FOOD SUPPLY:  Not removing acorns leaves food for squirrels and other wildlife during
the winter as well as providing new sapling oaks in the spring. Not
removing leaves provides more thermal shelter for northern animals.
...............
James Marcus:  Dandelions: they must be God's favorite flower for He plants them everywhere.

IV: PLANT RIGHTS Numbers 33 and 34
1. PLANT RIGHTS Protects the rights of sentient plants whose feelings have
been documented by Dr. Chandra Bose, knighted by the Queen of England for
his laboratory measurement of plant consciousness. Other scientists
who have proven or written of plant consciousness ares are Clive
Baxter, Luther Burbank, The Secret Life Of Plants writers,, the owner to
whose rights, Isaac Tigrett, sold all the Hard Rock Cafes he founded after
becoming a vegetarian. (Dandelions would rather be plucked by 7 year old
boys like Jai Len who consider them bubble blowing sticks.. than by a
machine.) Pachysandra, myrtle, snow on the mountain, and camomile are
some ground covers which do not offend more conservative neighbors.
2: WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY Those like Lady Bird Johnson who have worked to
foster protection of wildflowers know the necessity of more wild places.
3: ENDING BOTANICAL RACISM E. Duffy Woodford is the first person who
has spoken to us of botanical racism. This phrase means different things
to different people. To us it means that weeds have as much right to exist
as do plants with cultivated blooms.
The spirit-filled volunteers called weeds are usually stronger, more
and more prolific than cultivated plants.
V: DIVINE RIGHT:
1. Mother Earth blesses those who abandon controlling and manipulating her.
2. God does not like lawnmowers.
(Joel 1: The land mourns the destruction of plants.)
(Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.)

Written by someone born with a grey thumb which neglected all plants.
The thumb is gradually turning green.

HOW TO SAVE TREES AND REFOREST THE EARTH

1. eat fruit which supplies demand for those who plant orchards http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
2. save fruit seeds and scatter them in wild places http://www.ran.org
3. plant trees http://www.freetree.org
4. Get your news on the web. Metropolitan dailies and news magazines account for trillions of
   trees annually. http://www.earthisland.org
5. Consider a water hose or 100% recycled toilet paper.
6. Build with stone and stucco, brick and block, and other nontree materials.
7. Purchase furniture which is used and refurbish it or buy metal furniture with cotton padding.
  There are many nontree furniture options. The furniture, lumber, and construction businesses
  have lobbied for the cutting down of US forests, whereas the UK requires a permit to cut down
  old trees.
8. Publish newsletters on cotton, rice, recycled, or rag paper. A growing number of recycled firms
  are collecting rags for paper.
9. stop mowing or reduce mowing.
10. Take a canvas bag to the supermarket.
11. The cattle industry is a major deforester, producing food yielding 100 to 1000 lbs an acre
  whereas fruit orchards yield 450,000 lbs an acre. The less meat we eat the better for Mother Earth.
12. The unused backs of 8 l/2 x 11 paper, the use of recycled stationery
 
 

IF YOU WILL JOIN THE EVERGREEN NETWORK PLEASE EMAIL US SO AT
ab514@acorn.net There is no financial, action, or other obligation.

(dedicated to Attorneys Beverly Rosen, Wm Whitaker, and David Bertsch of
Akron, Ohio who have given probono time to environmental
and other causes, and to pioneers in plant consciousness research such as
Dr. Chandra Bose, Luther Burbank, and the authors of The Secret Life Of
Plants. None of those mentioned necessarily endorse all the points herein.)

In an editorial on March 19, 1977, the Washington Post editorialized: "the tall grass can only benefit the citizens who seek the beauty of Rock Creek Park". That year the National Park Service instituted a 'meadows' program to let some areas return to nature. The Post mentioned the federal court case victory of an Akron citizen who fought the city's compulsory
lawnmowing ordinance. "Nature is ready to cooperate. Some citizen  cooperation is next." In addition the Post's Richard Cohen reported on a lawn mowed by a guinea pig named Bijou. Phil Shenon of the New York Times has covered no-mow activists such as Alice Herrington, then president of Friends of Animals. The BBC, NPR, and Australian Broadcasting are some
international networks which have covered the advantages of nonmowing. The  Los Angeles Times also editorialized in favor of
not mowing. The Atlanta Constitution outlined reasons not to mow in an article by Lewis Regenstein. Omni Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Organic Gardening, Anita Manning of USA Today, Vegetarian Times, OMNI  magazine, German newspapers, and many other publications have promoted the idea of nonmowing.

Patrick Velasquez of the US Agency For International Development studied Senegalese forest. He said the cost of planting other country exotics there was $25 to $50 per tree, with 19% survival rate whereas
natural regeneration (which occurs from nonmowing) is free.  The USDA in 1998 has signed onto the National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Conservation plan.. which encourages people to let the area behind their homes grow wild for the sake of the environment. One university police station has 'corn on the curb'. The Spanish poet Lorca, assassinated by Franco: "They cut timber and lioness teats as easily as if they were baking bread". Sterling North: We are but the ephemera of the moment, the brief
custodians of redwoods which were ancient when Christ was born.
Recently the governor of one of the largest states in the country
promised to plant l million trees in his state and said that trees, do
indeed, call down rain.
(Those areas with the most devastation this winter from icestorms, mudslides,
flood and tornado were for the most part places which had cut down
tens of thousands of trees in the last 20 years.)
. The Nicaraguan Network Environmental Task Force calls on multinationals
to stop devastating Atlantic forests.. linked to Hurricane Mitch
202 544 9355 Soren Ambrose or email Pronatur@northcom.net
. Greenpeace protests cutting of Canadian rainforest trees in Vancouver and elsewhere.  lumber sent
to Holland.. Dutch judge orders Greenpeace out of site
Senator Kay Hutchison of Texas on CNN on July 16 said that perhaps the
drought and high temperatures will continue for several years. But each
state has the choice to support the planting of millions of fruit trees
as natural cooling beings.. or to continue the environmental devastation
of the cattle, pork, chicken, and egg industries.
Covering Mother Earth with too much concrete can suffocate her.. and give her lung cancer. May all help her to breathe.

T Earley: They see a tiny little dandelion and call in chemical
trucks to pour gallons of toxic chemicals on her.. which end up
in the flood plains and then in our streams and rivers.
 

UNRULY THE ROSE

When Godgreen grows.. it's rarely in rows..the rye goes awry..
...uunruly the rose.
Freely wind blows.. unstraight rivers flow.. unchained fires glow
rarely in rows.

(this poem is dedicated to Rosalie Quine and to Sharan F)

Links:
http://www.ran.org  http://www.keeper.org http://www.greens.org http://www.sierraclub.org http://www.earthisland.org http://stopmowing.blogspot.com
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow  http://www.egroups.com/messages/treerights http://www.greenpeace.org
http://www.freetree.org http://www.epa.gov (wild lawns or natural landscapes links)http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
 

For information on lawsuits pending against cities
for forced mowing of nature sanctuaries and backyard temples write Larry Cornett lcorncalen@aol.com

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