It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

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 most difficult thing about writing

We also have a program in place for low income people. A family of four making $26, 000 a year can receive medical coverage, irrespective of citizenship or what documents.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.

Your passion is such that you pursue it for free because experiencing it is its own reward.

Trust...trust your fellow actors to support you; trust them to come through if you lay something heavy on them; trust yourself.

It's hard to believe, people don't even talk about it. Zero tolerance for criminal aliens.

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.