Goldsworthy Nature Quotes

#1. It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.

Joseph Alleine

#2. The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.

Andy Goldsworthy

#3. If the intent is right, why waste time thinking about the consequences.

Sapan Saxena

#4. 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.

Andy Goldsworthy

#5. I can sing, but it isn't something I crave to do professionally.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

#6. It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.

Andy Goldsworthy

#7. People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

Andy Goldsworthy

#8. We often forget that we are nature ...

Andy Goldsworthy

#9. There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

Andy Goldsworthy

#10. At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.

Andy Goldsworthy

#11. I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

Jo Brand

#12. I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a
certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and
somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have
done.

Jack Ruby

#13. Not too long ago, my opponent made a prediction. He said I would probably win Pennsylvania, he would win North Carolina, and Indiana would be the tiebreaker. Well, tonight we've come from behind, we've broken the tie, and, thanks to you, it's full speed on to the White House.

Hillary Clinton

#14. Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

Andy Goldsworthy

#15. Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Andy Goldsworthy

#16. Quite openly, voters selected on the basis of perceived character and past behaviour rather than the views a candidate expressed. Where an individual's nature was not obvious, the Roman people tended to be drawn to a famous name, for there was a sense that virtue and ability were inherited.

Adrian Goldsworthy

#17. I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.

Andy Goldsworthy

#18. Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Andy Goldsworthy

#19. My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.

Andy Goldsworthy

#20. We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

Andy Goldsworthy

#21. 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.

Andy Goldsworthy