QUOTES 7/5/2017

“Hi, my name is Remco, I’m 26 years old and I live in the Netherlands . . . I live in an apartment together with my husband and my dog.  I’ve been a naturist for about 4 years now and I frequently visit naturist beaches in the Netherlands.  Just go for it!   Like for every first time, the first step is the hardest.  Don’t think it through too much, take your clothes off and dive in!” – Remco, http://www.nakedwanderings.com/2016/09/01/the-naturist-talks-remco-from-the-netherlands/

“Camping naturiste Natustar Creuse Nature France” (Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twDx6nlqQWM

“The residents I spoke to all had a ton of activities they loved doing naked: getting the mail, fixing the car, watching an outdoor concert, riding a motorcycle, taking out the garbage, taking the dog for a walk around the neighborhood, and playing Scrabble outside under a shady oak tree.” – Lee Breslouer, https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/everything-you-ve-ever-wondered-about-nudist-clubs-answered

“There is a peculiar kind of loneliness seeded by the sense of being on the outside of the culture and the society inside which one is supposed to live. . . [William] Blake severed contact with his culture and his past completely and deliberately . . . His outsiderdom was fully self-elected — Blake flung the gates of his culture wide open with his own self-taught hands and marched boldly through them, his back forever turned to the citadel of convention. . . Blake’s isolation may be likened to that of the revolutionary who sits in his grubby room writing manifestoes against a society that pays him no attention, with footnotes against other revolutionaries who think him mad. . . It is the mark of a genius like Blake, or Dostoevsky, or Lawrence, that what is purest and most consistent in his thought burns away his own suffering and fanaticism, while his art speaks to what is most deeply human in us. . . Blake’s tragedy was the human tragedy, made more difficult because his own fierce will to a better life prevented him from accepting any part of it. . . Blake was a man who had all the contraries of human existence in his hands, and he never forgot that it is the function of man to resolve them.” – Maria Popova, https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/08/08/aldred-kazin-william-blake-beethoven/

“I like to head to the beach on full moons, strip down to nada, and dive in . . . Taking in [the moon’s] silvery glow is especially healing for women—it allows our special connection to nature to become more evident, more felt. - Kelly Morris, http://www.wellandgood.com/good-advice/is-skinny-dipping-the-ultimate-healing-practice/?utm_source=Well%2BGood&utm_campaign=697cc374db-7_21_16_EET_NYC_Taru_Festival&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b430628ea3-697cc374db-390274613