Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

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.

My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence

If I wouldn’t have spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher, I’d know how to punctuate. Good thing I normally write poetry.

Today it happen this, tomorrow who knows what will happen??

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.