Doug Tallamy Quotes

In terms of biological activity, a lawn is the least productive of our plantings, yet it is the default landscaping practice in most spaces.

Lawn watering accounts for 30 percent of all water used during the summer in the East and up to 60 percent in the West.

...maintaining our lawns in their prestigious, weed-free states has become quite a toxic undertaking...40% of the chemicals used by the lawn-care industry are banned in other countries because they are carcinogens.

When you look out your window, nothing moves. This does not other you because you grew up in a house with a yard in which nothing moved; you think a yard with no animal life is normal - after all, animals belong in nature, and nature is someplace else.

We must shrug off our age-old adversarial relationship with nature, the "nature versus us" attitude that may have worked for our ancestors but is deadly to us now.

Giving up is not an option; our current model of destroying the biosphere to expand the human footprint is not now and never has been sustainable.