Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

- Russell Page

'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 cannot be m…

- Russell Page

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

- Russell Page

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 g…

- Russell Page

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

- Russell Page

Garden making, like gardening itself, concerns the relationship of the human being to his natural surroundings.

- 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 …

- Russell Page

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

- Russell Page

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 a…

- Russell Page