When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn't any premeditation to it at all. It was really… — Larry Harvey Copy Share Image
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
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… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me. — Larry Harvey Copy Share
They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
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… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren - and then there's my son. So, it's a biracial family. — Larry Harvey Copy Share
We've been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it's a baroque city like Paris or Rome. — Larry Harvey Copy Share
People give because they identify with Burning Man, with our city, with our civic life. The idea of giving something to the citizens of… — Larry Harvey Copy Share
Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things. — Larry Harvey Copy Share
