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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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