It is also an activity which engages all the senses.
And you're totally focused on an activity, which is great for clearing the mind.
The trouble is we are engaged in an activity which is not a precise science".
It has, as such, become an opportunity for shopping, an activity which is the American common denominator.
"There was a lot of chat," says Newson, "amazingly, for an activity which is quite often silent".
And that, is the beauty of gardening; it is an activity which is available to almost anyone.
A ban would curb an activity which kills the people who do it or at least damages their health.
But both were lawyers, an activity which allowed them to put on the side any dossiers with a potential conflict of interest.
Ordinary people have relatively few resources to resist being sucked into an activity which normal circumstances would see them shrinking from in disgust.
For instance, a friend starts to translate Ayatollah Khomenei's writings into English, an activity which will gain favour with the regime while actually exposing it to ridicule.
CNN went to absurd levels to crop the man out of shot with extreme camera angles, an activity which clearly discombobulated the panellists.
