Today I'm walking to Einstein Bagels in the cold fall like weather, which I was kinda of enjoying, and I see a bunch of EKU employees racking up leaves and throwing them into trucks to be thrown away. I ask one simple question.....Why? What's wrong with leaves on the ground? To me, the change of the leaves in fall is what makes it so pretty, why rake all that up? Where are the tree huggers of America to stand up for the rights of leaves? Shouldn't leaves have rights? Obama, where are you on this issue? If we can't eat chicken, we shouldn't be able to rack up poor helpless little leaves and....God for bid...BURN them.
But in all seriousness (yes all of that above was me being a smart ass :) My tuition is paying for people to rake leaves...hmph. Just let the leaves lie on the ground. What harm did they do?
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I couldn't agree with you more... But why can't we eat chicken? Did I miss something?
ReplyDeleteActually, the leaves collecting and decomposing on top of the ground is bad for the grass beneath. By bad, I mean it makes the grass brown and dead... which isn't all that aesthetically pleasing.
ReplyDeleteAside from that, the leaves on the concrete form piles and decompose... but they have no place to go so we're left with a very slimy and slick walkway. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Don't get me wrong, I love the leaves too; but I hate thinking my tuition money is going up in smoke with the leaves for no reason, so I asked one of the workers about this very same topic a few years back. :)