Russell Page Quotes

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• A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
• 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart. A good garden…
• Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
• 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 groups…
• I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.
• Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
• To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
• A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
• You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.
• 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…
• There are few gardens that can be left alone. A few years of neglect and only the skeleton of a garden can be traced. .…

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