The whales do not sing because they have an answer, they sing because they have a song.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That's what I'm exploring.

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others - both human and animal.

Is it only humans that look up with wonder at the stars and the vastness of the universe?

I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

If you can't stop thinking of it, don't stop working for it.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

Remember to write for yourself, not for a market and give yourself time to develop your own style, your own voice. It takes a lifetime. Enjoy it!

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.