I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers’ grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside. Larry Harvey Read Quote
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. Larry Harvey Read Quote
We didn’t worry about getting a venue or asking permission. We started out guerrilla. We were illegal, going down to the beach to burn this thing. Larry Harvey Read Quote
As a child, I craved sophistication and culture. My parents didn’t know what to make of me. Larry Harvey Read Quote
We’ve been civilized from the beginning. In the desert, it’s a baroque city like Paris or Rome. Larry Harvey Read Quote
The art cars are the public transportation system. And that requires regulation because, lately, we’ve had art cars that don’t want people on board and that want private parties, and that’s in conflict with the communitarian feeling and the interactive aspect of society. Larry Harvey Read Quote
The bicycle thing – well, since people couldn’t use their cars, they had to use their bicycles, didn’t they? Larry Harvey Read Quote
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. Larry Harvey Read Quote
My wife is from Jamaica. My ex-wife. My stepchildren – and then there’s my son. So, it’s a biracial family. Larry Harvey Read Quote