On 2013-03-05 09:27:31 +0000, thescullster said:

Hi all

Not so much garden as outdoor related.

My daughter is currently in London at UCL and her accommodation is in a
less green area of the city.
I was encouraging her to get on a bus to somewhere (not necessarily
outside the city) where there was greenery around e. g. Regents Park.
She was not totally averse to the idea.

The question it posed is:

Is it part of human nature to feel the need for greenery?
Or have I been conditioned to value it by my parents/grandparents and
passed this conditioning on to my daughter?


Phil

Bit of both, I'd say. But I think it's an atavistic need. We all spring
from ancestry that lived off land and sea and on both, so we probably
do need both, still. It's a bit like most people preferring to go
upstairs to sleep at night. Instinctively, it just feels safer and that
probably goes back to when we climbed trees to get away from marauding
enemies or animals!
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Sacha
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