Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open.

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

When a chick has a sense of humor, theres nothing more attractive.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

The eyes are hammers.