So he did this weaving for his mother and he put stained glass in it, flat glass and loved the way the light played with it. He actually melted some flat glass and used a lead pipe and blew a bubble and that was the beginning.

When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working.

Chihuly believes art is for everybody. He thinks that everybody can be an artist. He doesn't think that it takes anything other than you want to and if he can do something where there are a lot of kids and they can ask questions and get all excited that's the ultimate for him.

Chihuly believes art is for everybody. He thinks that everybody can be an artist.

They're not group animals, they're completely solitary, so if the baby's mother is taken away, there's no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.