Garden Quote by Monty Don Download Open image “I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.” — Monty Don ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Garden Gardening Happens Myself See Who Writing
Is it too ingenuous to imagine that anything can be left to say about a garden? Garden literature, descriptive, reminiscent, and technical, has blossomed… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody… — Ketzel Levine Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“You're not a gardener, are you? So perhaps you don't know that once a garden is established, much of good gardening is about removal rather than planting, honing what you have to produce a pleasing effect, sacrificing the particular for the good of the whole. Gardening is a creative pastime, but the result is always a work in progress; unlike… — Rosalie Parker Copy Share
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he… — Henry Mitchell Copy Share Image
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
Gardening is easy. Stick it in the ground the right way up and most plants will grow perfectly well. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
My favourite thorn belongs to the rose with a name like a mouthful of broken teeth, Rosa sericea pteracantha. It is grown almost entirely… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I love filming. I love the teamwork. It's a tight-knit group spending months on the road together. All the experience is shared. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The thing the British hate more than anything else is people who are getting above themselves. There are a hundred different expressions for it… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
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… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I do wear gloves for things that sting a lot or prick a lot. But I just like to feel with my hands. I… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The key to our oldest woodland is that it has been cut down and regrown, in some cases as often as 50 or 60… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
When you plant something, you invest in a beautiful future amidst a stressful, chaotic and, at times, downright appalling world. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
The farm uses up a lot of my creative urges. It's a sort of rough and ready space, I don't film there. — Monty Don Copy Share Image
I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
Possessions can possess you. Even a lawn can possess you. It makes you buy a garden hose. Which makes you water. Which cuts into… — Orson Bean Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were so poor as kids. I didn't even see a bathtub, running water, hot water, commode - we didn't have any of that.… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share Image
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing. — Esther Meynell Copy Share Image
“In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
There was a product on late night TV that you could attach to your garden hose - "You can water your hard-to-reach plants with… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Submitted by Lisa Letto, Coordinator, Nutrition Resource and Volunteer Centre, College of Pharmacy… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
