![Statue of liberty in the desert like in Planet of Apes](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Statue-of-Liberty-12.jpg)
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
![Burning Man mutant vehicle](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Lost-Machine-Pirate-Ship-by-Captain-Andy1.jpg)
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
![Sunrise silhouettes of double helix wooden art installation](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Helix-Spire-by-Eric-Remash-and-Chris-Thomas.1-159x198.jpg)
At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding. Norman Maclean
![Burning Man ritual before the Man goes up in flames](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2010-Fireworks-Parade-11-127x198.jpg)
Fireworks parade – the last few colorful moments of Man’s life. This night view image was taken from the industrial lift about 50 feet above the ground. Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was … Continue reading
![Red sky over Nevada desert](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Burning-Man-2010-Dusk1-137x198.jpg)
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk. Jean-Paul Sartre
![Opening and closing blooms in desert](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/The-Sunflower-Project-by-Eva-Luna1-139x198.jpg)
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That’s all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? Robert Plant
![Burningman costumes](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Golden-Warriors1-133x198.jpg)
Man is a universe within himself. Bob Marley
![Burning Man couple](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Noah-Coming-Home-from-Party1.jpg)
If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.
![Night colors of Black Rock City](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Pope-Lennys-Camp1.jpg)
“Camp” is a vision of the world in terms of style – but a particular style. It is the love of the exaggerated. Susan Sontag
![Detail of huge park size art installation](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/City-Life-Reaching-For-Balance-Hawk1.jpg)
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. Victor Hugo
![Dancing woman next to surreal art at Burning Man festival](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Emerald-Kitty-by-Kathy-DOnofrio1.jpg)
As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. Deborah Bull
![Arthur Clarke monoliths at Burning Man festival](https://dusttoashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/11-11-Monument-by-Erik-Christensen-and-Rob-Wethington1.jpg)
If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin