On 05/03/2013 10:51, Sacha wrote:
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!


Thanks Sacha

I like the "going upstairs" parallel - that makes a lot of sense.


Phil