A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.

Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Carlin often said that history was everything, for it was in man’s nature to make the same mistakes over and over.

Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real.

Be bold enough to let your destiny determine how far you get to travel in life instead of your fears and doubts.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."

A sudden thought strikes me,-let us swear an eternal friendship.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

It was terrible when a single conversation with someone determined your whole future relationship.

There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.