QUOTES 10/1/2016

“Donald Duck was banned in Finland because Donald was naked from the waist down.” – Sarah White, https://youngnaturistsamerica.com/bits-of-naked-news-and-fun-facts-2/

“As I stood in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City, all I could see in every direction were artists, models, and swarms of photographers. . . and the models were not donning fancy clothes — on the contrary, the streets were filled with people taking their clothes off.  Today . . . was the annual Body Painting Day . . . I started to remove my clothes. . . I smiled for the hundreds of cameras and chatted it up with people on the street. . . This expression of art and the wild and wonderful designs the artists created were bringing out a child-like wonder and playfulness in everyone who stopped by.  There were no feelings of judgment or negativity in the air.  Instead, there was an air of vulnerability and trust among all the participants and spectators, not just the artists and models.  Everyone seemed enthusiastic and connected. . . the day was not about individual bodies:  It was a celebration of art, togetherness, and the beauty of creativity and bravery.” (Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jFCLspxLhU) – Sandra LaMorgese, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandra-lamorgese-phd/painted-naked_b_10968528.html

“Charles ‘Mac’ Macaskie knew he had found what he had been seeking since childhood.  As a boy, he never could abide clothes, preferring to run naked on the cliffs and beaches of his native Angus.  Now, having qualified as an engineer at university, he ran his own wireless repair shop in Portobello Road . . . Mac was to learn of Paul Zimmerman, the German whose 100-acre woodland paradise, Freilichpark, would soon become the world's first naturist holiday resort.  And inspired by Zimmerman's example, he knew what he must do. . . he had sold his London shop and bought 12 acres of virgin forest along the lane from his new friends in Bricket Wood. And one day, in the early spring of 1929, he and Dorothy picked their way through the undergrowth in search of a clearing where they could pitch their tent.  Mac called it his ‘green monastery’, and in the beginning it was to be a private Eden in which the pair of them might live in harmony with the woodland, practicing nudism and raising a family according to their own ideals. . . But as the word spread, others came to share the dream.  Weekenders at first, they rented plots and cabins and labored, naked, to build a few basic amenities.  Pride of place was given to a swimming pool, an ambitious structure fed by a great wind pump.  This soared above the trees and carried at its summit the name Spielplatz.  The private Eden had become a public ‘play place’, and Britain had its very first sunclub.” – David Newnham, https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/mar/05/weekend7.weekend4?CMP=twt_gu

“The nude is a historical celebration of our intrinsic beauty, the epitome of fine art, from classical statuary and Michelangelo . . . Marc Quinn’s Trafalgar Square plinth statue of a naked Allison Lapper.  There is barely a public building unadorned with a naked sculpture, yet we criminalize the real thing.  Punishing people for being as God intended (or whomsoever you think made you) is itself a perversion – and actually sexualizes the naked body in an extraordinarily unhealthy way.” – Philip Hoare, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/04/nudity-isnt-indecent-british-tradition-naked-rambler?CMP=share_btn_tw

"I do ask why we as Christians . . . still hide behind fig leaves and bushes?  We hide our naturism among our clothed friends and church, while hiding our Christianity among our nudist friends at resorts.  We need to stop doing this. . . Why are we still hiding?” - Boyd Allen, (Tom Pine’s) The Naked Truth Naturists Newdsletter, Vol 17, #6, June 2016