We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

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.

you were born as an origional don't die as a copy

To gain height, lose all your tall friends.

You can have what you wish in the sacred time.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

No matter how sad we might be, the universe is still planning our happiness.

Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all.

It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.