Gardening:
- Gives you food to eat
- Gives you hard work to do
- Makes you feel good about yourself
- Provides aesthetically pleasing foliage
On a side note, it’s worth that anywhere that young men are unemployed or otherwise unoccupied, they cause trouble. Riots, gangs, violence… you name it.
Going all the way back to Genesis, we see a stark contrast.
There is man as God made him, a steward of the earth who enjoys the bounty of the earth.
There is man as man has made him, disillusioned, purposeless and convinced that life holds only violence and disappointment.