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.


The Education of a Gardener (ed. Random House, 2010) - ISBN: 9781407092041

Russell Page Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...