Are You an Ent or an Entwife?

[Galadriel]

Originally Posted by doug*platypus

To me, nature is more beautiful, more orderly and more full of life than any garden could ever hope to be. But many women I know (my mother, my grandmother, my girlfriend and her mother as examples) are avid gardeners, who would rather go to a flower show than set foot in a national park.

Are you an Ent or an Entwife?

Funny. Many women I know prefer nature as it is. I suppose this is one of those cases where we already have a certain attitude towards a gender, and when we see even a teensy bit of evidence, we generalise. So perhaps if I have heard something like 'Men are more aggressive than women', and see a man bashing a car the next day, I would go, "Hey, maybe these gender biases are right!"

Either way, in answer to your question, I like both. I feel both have a beauty. It's like choosing between a real landscape and an abstract painting. Certainly you will offend the artist by saying you prefer the former! But art, I feel, is both a manifestation and an imitation of nature, and that certainly includes gardening!