QUOTES 5/19/2019

“. . . for English colonists clothing was a metonym for identity, nakedness essentially equaled social death, an apparent lack of civilization and with it the ability to dominate nature.  Nakedness represented savagery, the lack of that European Western construction ‘civilization,’ the loss of the ability to control nature . . . Therefore, the naked body was seen as inferior and abject, not a representation of perfection, but rather as something showing lack of cultural, technical, and intellectual mastery, as something disabling. . . For the English, naked men were barbarians and naked land a wilderness. . . Could this savage environment that was America contaminate the English, turn them into naked heathens, thus disabling their claim to civility?” - Moody Miller, http://www.naktiv.net/blog/835/the-naked-body-disabled-by-the-clothing-compulsion/

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“Sampling the Life – Saturday dawned clear and sunny, and the wind finally let up. The warm weather gave me a chance to sample the naked life, and I didn’t put on anything for the next two days.  It is incredibly liberating, and in a funny way it is an experience like no other.  It is almost like going back to a simpler time, a time so long ago, when you didn’t have clothes, and you played around in the nude.  Not having pockets, a cell phone or my keys was a pleasant change, it made life seem simpler and less tied down to my material world.” – Max Hartshorne, From Tom Pine’s Special Report, file:///C:/Users/Owner/Downloads/The%20Naked%20Truth%20Naturists_vol_16_Special%20Report_no_03.pdf

“Man is an outdoor creature.  Sure it I nice to have a shelter that provides heat in the winter or cooling in the summer. . . However, there is the disconnect with nature.  We need to be outdoors and moving . . . and there are enough studies to prove the point. . . when the misses and I had to face a major health-crises the first piece of advice given to me was ‘take time for yourself’. . . get away and move!” – Nudewalker, http://freerangenaturism.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=055f0535afdecf562fdd98338a579f8e&topic=655.150

“The most peaceful time of the day is time spent being nude. Enjoy being at peace with nature.” – Luke Northnude, https://twitter.com/northnude/status/719811676279869440

“. . . somewhere along the line, somebody decided that there are moral issues with being naked in public, and it is now ingrained in the human psyche.  Nudity is synonymous with shame and embarrassment for some people; for others, it’s synonymous with pornography.  But for some, nudity is simply about being in their natural state in the great outdoors.” – Jillian Page, http://jillianpage.com/2013/04/30/replay-nudismnaturism-the-private-parts-issue/