"Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn," opined English philosopher, statesman and scientist Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626). In his day, grass was cut on hands and knees with a very crude pair of shears. It is unrecorded if the great man himself so indulged.
W. C. Fields was another lawn enthusiast. "I like this place because of the lawn. I think looking at cut grass is the most soothing thing in the world," he said of the three acres of lawn at his rented house in Laughlin Park, Los Angeles. But he didn't have to care for it himself.
