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The Psychology Behind Gardening
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| Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
I do not know what it is a garden that has always attracted human
them. But they have always been very popular and an integral part of
Peoples' lifestyles. Most religions as a typical garden settings
some of the biggest events According to Christianity, humanity began
in a garden and the son of God was resurrected in a garden. The Buddhist
build gardens to allow permeate their environment. Almost all
major palaces and government building has a garden. But what is so great
on them? They are just a group of plants, after all.
Of course, the reasoning is fairly obvious why people behind grow food in
gardens. It is to eat! If you live off the fat of the land and, indeed,
survive on things from your garden, it is easy to understand the reasoning.
But I think these people who plant gardens of flowers just for
Research sake of Nice. There was no immediate benefit that I can see you
just a bunch of flowers in your garden! However, on reflection
largely on the reasons for planting decorative gardens, I
designed several theories.
I think one reason why people love gardens so much is that while we
have a natural desire for progress and industrialize, deep within us all
Primal is a love of nature. Even if this desire is perhaps not as strong as
the desire for modernism, it is still strong enough to compel us to create
gardens, small outlets of nature, amidst noise and our
agitation. Since being in nature is like regressing to an earlier stage of
humanity, we can also decline at a time of comfort and bliss.
That is why the gardens are relaxing and calming to be in. That is why
the gardens are a good place to meditate and exercise tai chi. A garden is
a way to escape quickly from the animation world.
I thought perhaps time that we humans feel a sort of guilt
lead us to restore nature and care for her. This conviction could result from
the knowledge that we, personally, but as a race, have destroyed so
much of nature to get where we are today. This is the least we can do for
build a small garden in memory of all the trees we kill every day.
It's my theory that the underlying reason for most people to take
gardening as a hobby.
Gardening is certainly a good practice if not get me wrong. Any
hobbies that exercise helps, helps the environment and improves
your diet may not be a negative thing. So whatever the underlying
psychological cause for gardening is, I think everyone should
continue to do so. In the United States in particular, dealing with obesity
and pollution as its two main problems, I think gardening can only serve
to improve the state of the world.
Of course, I'm no psychologist, I'm just a curious gardener. I often stay
for hours to ask what makes me a garden. What makes me go
outside for a few hours every day with my garden tools, and facilitate
the little time the growth of plants that grow naturally on their own? I
May never know, but in this case, ignorance really is happiness. |
posted by neptunus @ 4:30 AM
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