“I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I li...” — Monty Don Quote

“I don't think about being the Colin Firth of the gardening world. I live a very insular world based around my family and my home, and to them I'm not the Colin Firth of anything.”

“Plant breeding has been going on for millennia and it's a gradual process.”

“The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be. The more people can work in woods and use them practically rather than go through the motions as a kind of ersatz exercise, the more they will care for the places themselves rather than the political idea of them.”

“To dwell is to garden.”

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

“I think we put far too much interest in trying to get ten to 20 year olds interested in gardening. I think you should do everything you can to try and get them interested up to the age of 10.”