If you are living in an apartment with absolutely no space for you to plant trees and grow big plants, you can now have an alternative to be one with nature.  You can instead grow a bonsai plant. You just need plant material to be "trained" as a bonsai, a small pot, some earth/soil, a couple of bonsai tools and you are set.

Any plant will do as a bonsai.  You can even choose a variety that you intended to plant if you just had a space.  You can have shrubs, big towering trees, fruit plants, and just about any plant can be cultivated as a bonsai plant.  You can have an acacia bonsai tree, pine bonsai trees, bonsai azaleas, bonsai camellia and even a bonsai bamboo tree.  Bonsai plants are not just there for you to be one with nature, they also provide a good way for you to relax and teach bonsai growers to be patient.  Creativity is also a big thing that can be enhanced.  Just imagine that you want a bonsai that has two sections branching out.  You cannot just tell the bonsai plat to branch out on its own; you have to make use of your creativity to search for ways on how to bend the plant in order for it to follow what you want.  A certain degree of creativity is also needed to createtrees and plants that look like a certain shape such as dragons, fishes and the like. 

Cultivating a Bonsai plant is a surefire way for you to experience nature, even if you don't have a space to grow trees. But even if you had the space to grow trees, growing bonsai trees and any other kinds of bonsai plants is still very rewarding and definitely worth your time and energy.  When you just look at the beauty of a bonsai, it's like having nature close by your side.

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