Monty Don Quotes

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Gardening always has been an art, essentially.

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.

I love gardens!

I like flowers. In my next life, maybe I can be a gardener.

I'm a gardener, and I love to plant.

Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. ‘The Spirit is a garden,’ said he

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

I loathe gardening, but I love gardens, and I have two beautiful gardens. I can not bear gardening, but I love gardens.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I'm really into gardening.

Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.

What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate.

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.

Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.

I have always wanted to be a gardener, and I love the time I spend in my garden.

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.