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" It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching. "

Saint Francis of Assisi
" Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. "

Saint Francis of Assisi
" Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. "

Dave Foreman
" A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" A well-worn tool carries the memory of the person who used it and will have an archaeological feel as it rises to the surface. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" Breaking stone with a hammer is a familiar and acceptable way of working the material, but is in fact a more violent response than firing. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" I check the kiln during the later stages every hour night and day. This is very draining, both physically and emotionally. "

Andy Goldsworthy
" I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones. "

Andy Goldsworthy
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