Monty Don
English horticulturist, broadcaster, and writer
Getting my 21-year-old knees back.
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The ability to switch off.
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If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
Ultimately, a bigger hallway.
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Until I got curtains recently, it was the orange street light.
I told my mum I wanted to be a swan.
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There was a moment in my early 20s when I’d finished Emmerdale and didn’t know what was next. I drove from LA to San Francisco listening to Tracy Chapman and it felt like one of those pure moments of uncomplicated joy.
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