" ...it might behoove us to reduce our production of carbon dioxide. Hacking away our forests to plant huge expanses of lawn is a poor way to go about it, however. Trees are carbon sinks. That is, they use carbon from the atmosphere to build their tissues and they keep that carbon locked up and out of trouble until they did two, three, or even four hundred years later... just think how much of the carbon emissions in the United States we could offset (and money we could save) if we reversed our course and started to replace some of our 40 million acres of lawn with trees. "

― Douglas W. Tallamy