The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.
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In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.
My work more than didn't fit in. It crossed willy-nilly the boundaries that people had spent their lives building up. It hits some 30 subfields of biology, even geology.
I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.
I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.
Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.
I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
While in college, I used to get my ideas from photographs in 'National Geographic.' I started painting palm trees and motorboats.
Everything that I've done in my life was to lead me to my work with the animals.
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