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> [People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of Black Rock City has enormous appeal to them because it enhances their sense of who they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/people-give-because-they-identify-with-burning-man-with-our-city-with/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

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## More by Larry Harvey

> [We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/we-take-people-to-the-threshold-of-religion-our-aim-is-to-induce/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [I think it's a little much to expect the organisation to solve the problem of racial parity. We do see a fast-increasing influx of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/i-think-it-s-a-little-much-to-expect-the-organisation-to-solve-the/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/as-a-child-i-craved-sophistication-and-culture-my-parents-didn-t-know/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/they-become-the-keepers-of-the-mystery-they-place-themselves-between/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/i-grew-up-on-a-farm-in-oregon-an-adopted-child-with-one-sibling-and/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/it-avoids-a-self-conscious-relationship-to-the-act-we-live-in-the/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/black-rock-gives-us-all-a-chance-to-heal-to-become-ourselves/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [Kleenex would have made a mint today.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/kleenex-would-have-made-a-mint-today/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/my-wife-is-from-jamaica-my-ex-wife-my-stepchildren-and-then-there-s/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/we-ve-been-civilized-from-the-beginning-in-the-desert-it-s-a-baroque/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [Artists deserve to make a living](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/artists-deserve-to-make-a-living/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/people-give-because-they-identify-with-burning-man-with-our-city-with/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/burning-man-is-like-a-big-family-picnic-would-you-sell-things-to-one/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [We see culture as a self-organising thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/we-see-culture-as-a-self-organising-thing/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

> [Belief is thought at rest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-harvey/belief-is-thought-at-rest/)

[Larry Harvey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-harvey/)

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