I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

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.

When you have a kid in your house, it's time to learn rather than teach!!!

Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.

I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.

Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability.

I'll start with the Beatles, and I'll bookend it with Soundgarden.

From my own experience, there are so many people who believe that the individual can change. The individual doesn't have to be LGBT.