Monty Don Quotes

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

I think there is some real therapy in getting your hands in the dirt and working with food.

I read, go for walks and I love to garden. My hands are such a mess. People think I should have movie star hands, but they're just gardening ones. Always slightly grubby and with a bit of dirt under the fingernails.

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Gardening is not my thing. You're digging in the dirt, and then a couple of months later, something happens.

I love cake or any sweets.

I've always loved being outdoors, getting my hands dirty.

I'm obsessed with muffins.

Baths are my favorite thing. I can have two, three a day.

Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?

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

I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in, tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like tidying up the garden afterwards.

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

First, kids should be involved in the production of their own food. They have to get their hands in the dirt, they have to grow things. They also have to become sensually stimulated, and the way to begin is with a bakery.

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I have candy around my bed. I just kinda like reach over and eat it and then go back to sleep, no problem.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

I love working in the garden.

To be able to buy a plant and plant it, that's a luxury to me.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

How my son discovered vegetables was from growing them in the garden.