108 Quotes by Monty Don

When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.

When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world.

People are increasingly realising that what they eat is important. You can't put junk food in your body and be healthy. All sorts of problems can develop, like diabetes, heart disease, obesity, strokes. Gardening not only helps with exercise and mental health, but it can improve diet as well.

Absorbing a healthy amount of dirt builds your immune system.

Daffodils, blossom and tulips jostle to the front of the stage in April. I love these early perennials: they may be more modest but they nearly all have that one special quality that a plant needs to transform your affections from admiration to affection - charm.

I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared.

I am always more interested in people than plants. Nature doesn't make gardens, people make gardens. And the story of a garden is always the story of a person.

That first snowdrop, the flowering of the rose you pruned, a lettuce you grew from seed, the robin singing just for you. These are smallthings but all positive, all healing in a way that medicine tries to mimic.

Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.