Grass

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Grass

Grass and Sheep, and Cattle. Grass and trees, trees and grass. A lone tree set among rolling, grassy hills. The beauty of nature speaking volumes quietly.

Have you ever thought about grass, how you can mow it, cut it, reap it, and bite it off – and it keeps coming back again and again. That quality of grass that it does not die when its top is cut off is why it is successful. It is so successful that grasses are the most common plants with the farthest reach anywhere on the planet.

Not to play favourites, but some animals cut the grass so close to the ground that other animals cannot eat it.

Grass and Sheep, and Cattle

Sheep don’t have an upper set of teeth. They bite grass with one set of bottom teeth that cuts against a hard top palate. And once they have cut the grass to a fine sward, cows cannot eat the grass until it grows longer.

That’s because cows eat grass by wrapping their tongues around the grass and tugging and pulling; So no length of grass, no grip, and no food for the cow.

Now we see what the famous range wars were in the Old West in the Unites States. It wasn’t that the cattle ranchers were greedy cattle barons as much as it was that if sheep covered the ground, the cattle would starve. That puts another angle on the history of the West. In this image though we have grass and a tree – no sheep, no cattle – just harmony.

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