Andy Goldsworthy Quotes

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

As one tale ends, so another begins.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

A life cycle can be imposed on an object. An object can be very energetic and active, and then it has a dying phase and a phase of decomposition.

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

My life has been about big changes.

Die and born again, die and born again. It's the story of my life.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

Nature abhors the old.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.