Larry Harvey Quotes (21 Quotes)

It is great we got to this point and can take control of the property.

We were looking for the best candidate. We have a global search here for the right candidate, and it didn't matter if they were a minority.

What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about Burning Man as much as Borg2 indicates, they might turn their attention away from the small, embattled group that created it.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

It didn't make a lot of sense.

The irony is we went way out of the world and had to learn worldly skills to survive out there. What people who understand us discover is we have experts is every field of human endeavor.

I've been to 20 Burning Mans, and I've never seen a better one. The group that came this year was a bit more noble in their intentions than any I've ever seen in a city this size. They've really absorbed the idea of participation.

This is an opportunity for people who did not do interviews to have some one-on-one time. These guys will be able to talk to them and make their own decision.

Kleenex would have made a mint today.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

You really have to get below 28 for four hours. I would rather have 32 than 80, even though it's not chamber of commerce weather. It keeps the fruit like a refrigerator.

They had been assigned a role. They were a member of the greater whole. They shared our same goals. Through the simple act of helping out.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

Here I was, amid 500 tits, and I was principally paying attention to the social aspects of the event. It was neither puritanical nor prurient.

Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.

San Francisco has always been a place apart, and a center of eccentric and independent thinkers. And what we started here, I don't think could have grown up anywhere else. You can create a social context in which culture can be created, but you can't directly create the culture.

We had a good effort up and down the lineup. If we keep our focus and play as a team, we can win the state title again.

Belief is thought at rest.

I've never been comfortable with the goals because we never come close to the goals.

Everyone seems to be feeling that great change is in the offing, but nobody knows what it's going to be. And that raises questions about the creative class.