Maya Lin Men Quotations

I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

To fly we have to have resistance.