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A well-maintained little ecosystem in a garden is a lot closer to nature than an appartment, I don't see what you're trying to get at.
A mowed lawn is ecologically only marginally better than pavement. Maybe even worse when pesticides and herbicides are involved.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but what's better, a place where nothing grows, or a place where only the wrong things grow?
And vegetation can grow in cities. If you don't turn the entire city into parking lots middle-america style, cities can have plenty of public parks.
If that wrong thing isn't a parasite to the local nature, then it's definitely better than nothing.