Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.
There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn't have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Summer is very precious.
If we ever have free time, my partner and I are fond of going on walks through the local state forests and parks.
I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
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