Best quotes by Monty Don on Gardening

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.

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• ‟ We are extremely uncomfortable with the spiritual aspects of gardening, and yet most people feel it in some form or other, even if it's a sense of connection to the greater world on a beautiful day.

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

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• ‟ My gardening apprenticeship was similar to the way a chimney sweep is pushed up a chimney. It was enforced by my parents, non-negotiable - it would be weeding the strawberries, mowing the grass.

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• ‟ The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.

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• ‟ Gardening is seen as a pastime that is almost like belonging to the Church of England - a sign of maturity and wisdom and right thinking.

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• ‟ We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

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• ‟ 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.

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