Became Quote by Jenny Holzer

I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work…

— Andy Goldsworthy

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures…

— Cornelia Parker

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and…

— Robert Redford

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

— Peter Weir

Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a…

— Sylvie Simmons

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

— George Aiken

I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of the sky…

— Freya Stark

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered…

— Richard Dean Anderson

I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the '80s, and I'd look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking…

— Malik Yoba

But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The human place,…

— Geraldine Brooks

As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.

— John Burroughs

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have…

— Brit Marling