“ When asked what inspired him to make Singapore a city in a garden, the alarmingly aged and wispy haired Minister Mentor said that he had found Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok to be hideous, awful concrete jungles.
— Monty Don, the BBC’s gardening guru, in an interview with MM Lee who was described as the Master Gardener. From
Soul Surviving in the State’s Garden (Singapore Angle: Perspectives)
