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The Mind is a Garden

Gardens have adorned homes since the formation of the earliest cities. Today, humans have brought an aspect of nature into the urban world as a kind of silent protest against urbanity itself. The home symbolizes structure and protection, while the garden brings back an element of wilderness and uncertainty. You can even ensure your garden […]
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Gardens have adorned homes since the formation of the earliest cities. Today, humans have brought an aspect of nature into the urban world as a kind of silent protest against urbanity itself.

The home symbolizes structure and protection, while the garden brings back an element of wilderness and uncertainty. You can even ensure your garden along with the rest of your property with companies like brokerlink insurance.
Gardens are peaceful sanctuaries. That is why we keep producing them and why they?re so popular. Even open green spaces bring a sense of solace and relief from the concrete and mortar that surrounds us all the time.

1. Gardening Through the Ages

You may have heard the stories about the hanging gardens in Babylon. Whether or not they actually existed is debatable, but this illustrates how long gardens have been a feature of civilized life.

So important were various plants and trees in the ancient world that some kings even adorned their tombs with depictions and lists of the plants they possessed. Cedars, pomegranates, and many others were ...

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