Quotes by Larry Harvey

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

“Weve come through. This is the revolution Id hoped for all along.”

“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.”

“San Francisco has always been a place apart, and a center of eccentric and independent thinkers. And what we started here, I dont think could have grown up anywhere else. You can create a social context in which culture can be created, but you cant directly create the culture.”

“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.”

“If that isnt applying our ethos, I dont know what is. The very skills needed to survive at Burning Man are the skills needed to respond to a disaster.”

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

“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 were looking for the best candidate. We have a global search here for the right candidate, and it didnt matter if they were a minority.”

“They have hundreds of names in databases. How it came down exactly from them I dont know.”

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 dont dictate those terms.