Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.

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.

Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.

A healthy happy life is a sacred bliss!

It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, "I love you

The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.