Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

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.

She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who’s only holding Cinderella back.” "That’s my girl.

I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.

Ask God to give you the fifty-year view of your hurt.

It has been observed that "none are free indeed but those whom Christ makes free.

I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.

Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.

"Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference"

If you don't believe your general, you're not going to go into battle knowing you're going to die.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.