Monty Don famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.
-- Monty Don

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In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.
-- Monty Don

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By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better
-- Monty Don

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I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
There were years when Hitchcock was like a master to me, but now I think he's so artificial. I can watch films and say how technically beautiful they are, but I'm not impressed by any technicality.
Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.
Educational enterprises do not for any length of time remain immune from the struggle of interests for power which is the dominant feature of social life under a class system.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future.
The greatest need of our age and of every age, the greatest need of every human heart, is to know the resources and sufficiency of God.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

Monty Don famous quotes

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