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I don’t know what it is about a garden that has always drawn humans to them. But they’ve always been very fashionable, and an integral part of peoples’ lifestyles. Most religions feature gardens as the settings for a few of the biggest occasions According to Christianity, humanity was started in a garden and the son of God was resurrected in a garden. The Buddhist build gardens to allow nature to permeate their environment. Virtually every major palace and government building has a garden. But what’s so great about them? They’re just a bundle of plants, in the end.

Needless to say, the reasoning is fairly obvious behind why people grow food in gardens. It’s to eat! If you live off the fat of the land and actually survive on stuff from your garden, it’s easy to figure out the reasoning. But I’m looking at those people who plant flower gardens just for the sake of looking nice. There is no immediate benefit that I can see; you just have a bunch of flowers in your yard! However, after thinking extensively about the motivation behind planting decorative gardens, I’ve conceived several feasible theories.

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I think a good reason people enjoy gardens so much is although we have a natural desire to progress and industrialize, deep within everyone of us is a primal love for nature. While this hope might not be as powerful as the wish for modernism, it is still strong enough to compel us to produce gardens, small outlets of nature, in the course of all our hustle and bustle. Since being in nature is like regressing to an earlier stage of humanity, we too can regress to a time of comfort and utter happiness. This is why gardens are so relaxing and calming to be in. This is the reason why gardens are a respectable place to meditate and do Chinese tai chi workouts. A garden is a means to rapidly escape from the busy world.

I’ve thought occasionally that perhaps we as humans feel a kind of guilt driving us to restore nature and care for it. This guilt could stem from the knowledge that we, not personally but as a race, have destroyed so much of nature to get where we’re today. It’s the least we can do to create a small garden in remembrance of all the trees we kill a day. It’s my theory that this is the underlying cause for the majority of people to need gardening as a hobby.

Gardening is unquestionably a healthy trait though, don’t get me wrong. Any hobby that provides physical exertion, helps the environment, and improves your diet program cannot be a negative thing. So no matter what the underlying psychological cause for gardening is, I believe that everyone should continue to do so. In the USA especially, which is addressing obesity and pollution as its two major problems, I think gardening can only serve to improve the state of the world.

Needless to say I’m no psychologist; I’m just a curious gardener. I often stay up for hours questioning what makes me garden. What is it that makes me go outside for a couple of hours daily with my gardening tools, and facilitate the small-time growth of plants that would grow naturally on their own? I might never know, but in this instance ignorance truly is bliss.

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