“Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most pl...” — Monty Don Quote

“Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well.”

“What I love about French gardens is the combination of formal elegance and intellectual questioning.”

“Intellectually the French are wonderfully open, in a way the British just don't begin to be. You can question ideas in France, endlessly. In Britain, two things happen when you do that. Either you're branded an intellectual, which is fundamentally mistrusted, or you're branded a phony and pretentious, which people despise.”

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”

“I like learning languages, I have a huge garden and love gardening, I like life. I like it when life has many components.”

“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”