People always understand everything in retrospect.

We use up words as we use up images. We use up everything, and that's good, because it makes us grow.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

I'm mostly self-taught. I didn't learn much in school.

Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.

One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.