Why Aren’t We Cultivating Paradise and Growing Gardens?

When I was a kid being raised in the Church, I was fascinated by the Garden of Eden. I could imagine how amazing it must have been to walk around and pull an apple from one tree, a banana from another, and then lay down and pluck strawberries from the bushes. But in the reality in which I grew up, we were all surrounded by desolate areas carpeted with grass.