First of all, Den-Kara, I'd like to say that your post and your queastions are not the least strange to me. I'm a thinker and wonderer myself. You ask many interesting questions. Never stop doing that--neither thinking nor asking!

Secondly, I think Wolfspirit, our very own well of knowledge, will be able to answer your questions much better than me, simply because I don't know most of the answers, and I suspect she does. :-)


> I was thinking about grass today. I was in the back seat of my mom's car, and I got to thinking. Hmm...is each individual blade of grass an individual plant, or do you consider the entire lawn to be one huge plant? Hmm...or do you consider a lawn to be made up of a bunch of CLUMPS of plants? What IS grass? Do the blades grow in bunches with their roots intertwined, or do they stand alone?

I searched on both About.com and Google.com, but I didn't find any sites that could answer your questions. But you can learn a bit by looking it up on encyclopedia.com. For example, did you know that the cereal plants (wheat, rice, corn etc) are grasses? As is sugarcane and bamboo, too.


> What does grass symbolize poetically? Is it a symbol of unity and intra-personal relationships?

Interesting! I did a search for 'grass' on Learn2.com, and found this, under "Learn2 Appreciate Poetry": http://www.learn2.com/08/0812/08122.asp


> If you don't cut grass, how long will it grow?

I guess you mean lawn grass... Not that it helps, because I don't know. At least a couple of feet, I should think. At least that's the length of the grass (or hay) we grow for the sheep back home where I come from. It's either dried or conserved in a silo.


> What is the longest blade of grass ever recorded?

I know I've found grass leaves about two yards long or so, but that wasn't exactly lawn grass. :-)


> These, my friends, are the questions that give me nightmares at night.

Myself, I've been wondering about all the tiny flies and fly-like insects in existence. (I mean around here where I live.) I wonder if we know what they all are. Are there names for every species? Are they all recorded somewhere? How many of them are not classified yet? Do we know how they reproduce? What they eat? Who eats them? Why are some of them light green? Or slow-moving? Does anyone do research on them at all?

Trav"Yay! *Another* inquisitive mind!"holt.