"There are few gardens that can be left……" — Russell Page
"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 achieved strangely lasting compositions. However there, too, but for the hands that have piously raked the white sand into patterns and controlled the spread of moss and lichens, little would remain."
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11 Quotes by Russell Page
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A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a…
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'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a…
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Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.
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My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees,…
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I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.
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Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.
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To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.
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A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
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You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.
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A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still…
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