When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

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

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.

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.