When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.

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.

People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.

I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.

You don't lose a partner you've been with for 30-odd years and just wake up one day with a smile.

We lose everything because everything remains except us. And therefore any form of posterity may be an affront, and perhaps any memory, as well.

Life is a miracle. We, all of us are creator beings. We are the joyful choice makers.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Because we are a globally connected village, we need to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

I don't care if you broke, you grew up broke... you grew up rich. You only get 24hrs in a day! We all only get 24 hours in a day. It's what we do with it that makes the difference!

I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

Pray for me to learn quickly what I need to learn.