American - Celebrity | January 11, 1948 - April 28, 2018
I'll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.
Larry Harvey
CommunityBelievePerfectPersonUp
I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.
FaithPeopleBetterMoreNeverThan
Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.
FamilyManPicnicYouBigSell
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.
CommunityStruggleMeDesertGrow
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 just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.
FriendBeachFirePeopleMeLate
People craved orientation. It was a very basic primal need. So we could create a boundary that served lots of functional purposes and especially create boundaries that people would camp along.
PeopleCreateNeedBoundariesAlong
The bicycle thing - well, since people couldn't use their cars, they had to use their bicycles, didn't they?
PeopleBicycleWellUseSinceThing
If all of your self worth and esteem is invested in how much you consume, how many likes you get, or other quantifiable measures, the desire to simply possess things trumps our ability or capability to make moral connections with people around us.
PeopleSelfConnectionsWorthYou
Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
ChanceBlackRockBecomeUsHeal
People out here build whole worlds out of nothing, through cooperating.
PeopleBuildNothingOutThrough
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn't know what to make of me.
CultureChildParentsMeKnowMake
Belief is thought at rest.
RestThoughtBelief
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