A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.
Russell PageMy 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 of plants.
Russell PageA discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell PageThere 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.
Russell Page