Russell Page Quotes

#1. Green fingers are the extension of a verdant heart.

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

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#3. If you wish to make anything grow, you must understand it, and understand it in a very real sense. 'Green fingers' are a fact, and a mystery only to the unpracticed. But green fingers are the extensions of a verdant heart.

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#4. '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 made by somebody who has not developed the capacity to know and love growing things.

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#5. 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 of plants.

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

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#7. Limitations imply possibilities. A problem is a challenge.

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

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#9. To plant trees is to give body and life to one's dreams of a better world.

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

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#11. A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise.

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