Title: Gardens of mental peace: A literary perspective of horticulture

Abstract

It is long held dogmas that contact with nature (landscape, vegetation and water) ameliorates anxieties and fetch general healthcare benefits. Throughout its life, an individual enmeshes within a dynamic confliction of the natural and artificial environment, social life and consciousness. Within this confliction, the well-being rests on the availability of a perfect environment offering peace of mind and happiness. Nerve-shaken and tired people find wilderness, mountains, forests and meadows as fountains of mental peace and happy life. Thus, mental exhaustion drives a thrust to contact with nature to nourish our physical and physiological needs, and comfort. Naturalized spaces and gardens present a powerful symbolic platform for best manipulations in literature. In addition to nourishing exhausted minds, company of plants does offer nice selection of words for poets and literary men. Gardens as rhythmical manifestation of nature serve the best source of linking literature with the horticulture and this can be the best topic to study so that the upcoming generations can be connected with plants in order to secure the fading love for nature in this materialistic world. Therefore, we can hypothesize that a sophisticated use of word either in literature or in poetry is imperfect unless accompanied by nature.