There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.

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.

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

Every adversity brings new experiences and new lessons.

How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind.

Nothing happened today. I slept. While asleep I dreamed that I was sleeping.

Did nothing in particular and did it very well.

The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

There are unwanted emotions and pain that goes along with any birth.

When death captures me,' the boy vowed, 'he will feel my fist on his face.' Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry. Yes. I like that a lot.

I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.