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We are material creatures who spend much of our lives on material pursuits (even building a cathedral or writing a novel requires stone and mortar or paper and ink).

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

When I'm cutting a tree, if I'm thinking about anything other than that 40-foot oak tree... I'm a dead man. It's a therapy thing for me.

I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.

I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A great many human beings have thought about each of the artifacts that surround us. Different degrees of intelligence and attention have been brought to bear on anything.