“I ‘m still discovering how to render their forms. I will spend a lifetime doing that. Maybe someday I’ll get it right.”

I love trying to render not just the object, but what it has been through.

Myths show us what we have in common with every other human being.

This is one of the magical things about drawing – it gives us almost visionary moments of connectedness.

The power of both myth and art is this magical ability to open doors, to make connections – not only between us and the natural world, but between us and the rest of humanity.

When I draw something, I try to build some kind of history into it.

I keep drawing the trees, the rocks, the river, I’m still learning how to see them.

And at the same time, mythic stories and art celebrate our essential differences.

I’m drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends.

I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature,

Drawing an object that has a certain amount of wear and tear or rust; or a tree that is damaged.

To draw a tree, to pay such close attention to every aspect of a tree, is an act of reverence not only toward the tree, and toward the earth itself, but also our human connection to it.

Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire.

When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.

No matter what culture we come from, no matter what century we live in. . .

I get e-mail from all over the world, and from lawyers and doctors and whoever – plumbers and drywall hangers.

Think of The Rontourage as the Ron White Channel, where you can see us getting into trouble in all kinds of different places.

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.

If you get those two aspects right, most rugby matches will work in your favour.

The Christian life doesn’t get easier as one gets older.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.