I have always felt that the best gardens aspired to coppice and that the best woods have all the elements of the very best gardens.
Monty DonRead
I always see gardening as escape, as peace really. If you are angry or troubled, nothing provides the same solace as nurturing the soil.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Gardening serves as a peaceful escape that helps alleviate anger and troubles.
In this quote, Monty Don expresses how gardening can be a therapeutic activity that provides solace and calmness during times of distress. He highlights the act of nurturing the soil as a way to escape life's challenges and find peace, emphasizing the restorative power of connecting with nature.
Themes
GardeningSolaceNaturePeaceEscape
In practice
Example use cases
During a stressful week at work, I found solace in my garden as described by Monty Don.
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Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.
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Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.
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I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
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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.
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