Let me explain. Most houses in our suburb are some seven or eight metres wide. This means that their share of a continuous nature strip is some seven or eight metres. In the cases I refer to this share has been mowed with such exactitude that not a centimetre more or less has been cut. The line is so straight and so accurate that a professional surveyor could not have done better.
Nature strips are part of our landscape.
Perhaps they also offer a tiny window into our own natures. Irving Saulwick is a Melbourne social researcher. The Age Company Ltd 2000. Any unauthorised use, copying or mirroring is prohibited.