Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

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.

Never try to outgrow the people who were helping you walk, when you could not even walk.

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, ” August said. “You shouldn’t have done this to me.

He's completely complicated. And lost. And frustrating. But we do something for each other. . . . We fit. We need each other.

...the only thing that could justify your continuing existence on the planet would be if you started breathing carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen.

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.

No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

The Gnostic Anthropology addresses the magnificence of the Being, your inner being.

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.