The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

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.

I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the beauty later.

Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

Inspiration is for amateurs. professionals work everyday. Personally the best inspiration is a deadline.

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.

The best way to learn to swim is to dive.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

Love the horses, but don't ride on them! Riding the horses is a culture, a wrong culture!

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it.