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

I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.

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.

Most wonderful things are unconscious.

I study what I work with. I studied all these different fields of science that I needed for my work. I studied how to mine a landfill and what to plant in it. It's fascinating because you learn a new field each time.

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment.