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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.

I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Land is everything.

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being unemployed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

Land really is the best art.

Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.

The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.