As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.

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.

No one on any plane of existence is infallible or knows everything we need to know.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

That perfect bliss and sole felicity, the sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.

The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

In a town full of phonies, I'm not afraid to be me.

I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

Watch against lip religion. Above all abide in Christ and he will abide in you.