QUOTES 10/25/2017

“Before departing we went a few rounds on a slip and slide, which is way more fun when you're naked. . . There I stood, naked, surrounded by naked half-strangers, clapping as each person raced towards the slide and then flew down it in all of their birthday-suit glory. . . I watch my sister gear up, running sort of duck-footed, as she does, her long hair streaming behind her.  She flies on the slide so fast she looks like she may hurt herself.  She jumps off, laughing so hard her face is squished into a smile reaching from her mouth to the corners of her eyes.  And this is why we came here, to feel like this.  We're four years old again, splashing in mud puddles, 14 years old and skinny dipping in the York River, 25 years old and slip and sliding at a nudist park.” – Connelly Hardaway, http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/charleston/naked-and-unafraid/Content?oid=6027217

“London’s Naked Cycle Ride 11th June 2016” (Video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB3VeTGnEHg

“Gardening in the nude is exhilarating! . . . it is so joyous to tend to life, knowing I stood alongside nature to help bring such fragile things to fruition . . . and in my natural state of nudity, I feel so empowered, emboldened, and connected to the nature around me; we are truly one in that moment.” – LadyLyrics,  https://www.truenudists.com/forum/viewthread.php?id=94687&page

“But at Everett House, once you get into the locker room, almost everyone is naked.  They are naked in the showers, in the saunas, in the saltwater hot pool, perched on the edge of the pool, in the plunge tub, in the steam room.  I might have never been so naked, so close to so many naked people in my life.  And it was magical.  When (almost) everyone is naked, suddenly it doesn't feel weird. . . Under our clothes, everybody has a body.” – Lizzy Acher, http://www.wweek.com/culture/2016/05/17/should-you-be-spending-more-time-naked-in-public/

“I find extraordinary irony in the idea of Christians praising God as the glorious Creator of the universe and everything in it, piously acknowledging God's personal involvement in our own creation as human beings, only to then spare no effort in covering this very creation with fabric and shame.  This incongruity . . . betrays a profound lack of reverence . . . By their very nature, reverence and shame are mutually exclusive. . . when the human body in its God-created state is labeled as ‘shameful and unfit to be seen,’ the question that must be asked is, ‘How can anyone malign something so highly regarded by the Creator without maligning the Creator Himself?’  The answer, of course, is that you can't.” - http://www.figleafforum.com/articles_tabernacles_reverence.html