A beautiful piece of work, 18. Juli 2000

I bought this book for my girlfriend last Christmas on a whim and have since found myself utterly absorbed by Goldsworthy's incredible work. The man is an artist in every sense of the word. His creativity, patience, and eye shine through in every photograph. The man is brilliant.

Goldsworthy has enhanced nature's inherent beauty and complexity through slight, subtle, patient alterations and arrangements of everything from rocks to leaves to rain. Colors blend, twigs converge, water paints, patterns emerge. The result is an incredible study of natural beauty and form.

This book will find a place on anyone's shelf or coffee table. It belongs in every house and deserves to be seen by every eye.

       The Earth that we forgot, 4. Mai 2000

Goldsworthy takes utterly mundane natural materials - leaves, sticks, stones, ice, grass, flowers - and alters them in ways that don't quite change them, but simply make us take notice. Like a reviewer below noticed, the artist takes what is already there - he neither creates the icicle, nor does he cultivate the leaf. However, that is not what Goldsworthy mission is - he collaborates. He reorganizes nature into forms we haven't yet seen, forms which are so delicate, simple, and natural, that they draw us us to examine them, to see why these mundane things are so new, so vivid, so beautiful, and to once more discover the simple miracles of nature. After all, the only reason we don't see how enchanting the Earth around us is that we simply forgot about it. This book is enough to make us remember.

      untitled, 13. April 2000

andy goldsworthy shows what is right in front of you. nature is beautiful. he's added his own personally sensitivity to the medium of natural found objects, but the credit is due also to the objects themselves.

      untitled, 12. April 2000

andy goldsworthy shows what is right in front of you. nature is beautiful. he's added his own personally sensitivity to the medium of natural found objects, but the credit is due also to the objects themselves.

       A beatutiful expression of simpicity, 13. März 2000

Andy Goldsworthy has touched me, by using nature as his medium he is able to achieve such pure, simpicity in his work. The color photographs documenting each piece soon after thier completion seem to let you in a secret. But my favorite part is way he brings you through the process with him, using his matter of fact descriptions of weather conditions and other obsticles. It made me feel as though I was right there with him.