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Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.
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People always understand everything in retrospect.
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Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.
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The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.
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My work is about helping humanity.
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People are always fighting reality until it's pushed down their throats.
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Most wonderful things are unconscious.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
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Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.
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