There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. . . . Japanese artists working with a few stones and sand four hundred years ago… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely an aesthetic expression. And what is left of the earlier Mogul gardens in India suggests… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
“If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact,… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced.… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than… — Russell Page Copy Share Image
A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world. — Russell Page Copy Share Image
