I recently went with Lisa and her family to an art show in the Botanical Gardens in the Chicago suburbs. I’m a sucker for a good art show, which I suppose is why they have them in the first place. While I was thoroughly enjoying myself walking through neatly manicured vegetation, I couldn’t help thinking how strange it was to have a botanical garden in the first place, let alone an art fair in the gardens.
Now don’t get me wrong, I think its great that in many places there are botanical gardens that safeguard space for the enjoyment of nature… I just think we’re all missing the boat. Why don’t we make botanics more commonplace in our daily lives? Why aren’t we funding the creation of walking trails through nature and safeguarding what we already have instead of commercializing natural undeveloped land and building small single serving gardens for our enjoyment? Thoughts?
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