I feel like some Bible-bashing Republican senator who's been caught strapping himself to the wall bars in a secret torture garden, my appalling morals revealed.
Anyone who has hoed a small patch of land, or struggled to cultivate a seed, will know that the act of gardening is a moral gesture – an attempt to bring order and peace to a chaotic and disrupted world.
Ben Jonson's epitaph on Vincent Corbet, a Twickenham nurseryman who died in 1619, turns market-gardening into a moral art: His mind as pure and neatly kept As were his nurseries, and swept So of uncleanness or offence, There never came ill odour thence!
Mr Boles also told Newsnight that having a house with a garden was a "basic moral right, like healthcare and education".
But no hero's journey would be complete without a moral trial, and Hoare made sure that his garden provided one.
For Monet the garden was ultimately a muse, a moral theater and the equivalent of a studio model, of whom he made severe demands, but to whom he was devoted.
Only pleasure matters, and in Tom's garden of delights pleasure is the highest moral virtue.
Residents reveal a range of motivations for wildlife-friendly gardening, notably personal well-being and a moral responsibility to nature.
The moral of the story is: people with sheds in their garden can be as nakedly evil as the biggest mega-corporation, if they want to be.
"This is an all-embracing moral imperative: to protect and care for both creation, our garden home, and the human person who dwells herein -- and to take action to achieve this," said Turkson, who worked on drafting the encyclical.
