QUOTES 12/10/2016

“When one sees a beautiful location or just simply an attractive natural place - such as a forest or a hill or a beach or even just a field or stream - and instantly considers what a perfect spot it would be to be naked in, it can be dispiriting to realize that the vast majority of others feel no such connection and wouldn't begin to understand the appeal.  Can so many people be so wrong and comparatively few of us so right?  Well, naturism . . . seems so natural that it must be right.  Even my wife enjoyed it.  I say 'even' because she doesn't really 'get' naturism in the way that someone who is a born naturist does . . . I could never understand what terrible twisted feelings drive a young woman to hide her beautiful body, as if ashamed, and why those with less issues about self-image, such as mature people, who should know better, should also care a fig about what other people think.  They, at least, should have learned to question the norm and rediscover their instincts. . . I'm astounded that a lone person - female or otherwise - isn't overcome with a curiosity that is at least strong enough to wonder how it would feel to try - just try - walking along naked for a while on an almost deserted beach. . . As weak as the desire to get out of one's clothes is in certain individuals, if you don't submit to the call of liberation . . . then you probably never will.  And you will never experience freedom in your life.” – atourist, http://freerangenaturism.com/forum/index.php?topic=830.0;topicseen

"The protection of our children has to be paramount, but the line is being drawn in the wrong place . . . By suppressing something and keeping it hidden it means that nobody learns the truth.  Teenagers grow up thinking that a normal body is the one in the adverts or young men see pornography and take it from that.  No one knows what's normal anymore." - Andrew Welch, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/nudity-and-naturism-is-the-best-way-to-teach-sex-education-to-children-british-naturism-a7079206.html

“. . . William Blake and his wife Catherine . . . were discovered by a visitor in their Lambeth garden reciting Paradise Lost and uninhibited by ‘those troublesome disguises’.  ‘Come in,’ the artist-poet cried to his caller, ‘it’s only Adam and Eve, you know!’” – Philip Hoare, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/04/nudity-isnt-indecent-british-tradition-naked-rambler?CMP=share_btn_tw

“With co-education, nude recreation ended.  Today, youngsters of high school age, who in my generation were required to take group showers after every gym class, now rarely shower together.  Even football players apparently wear their uniforms home after a game rather than undress and shower in front of teammates.” - G. Mussell, (Tom Pine’s) The Naked Truth Naturists Newdsletter, Vol 17, #6, June 2016

“It’s hot out there.  Don’t put your clothes on.  Just enjoy a day free from clothes.  Then stay naked as much as possible.” - https://rfgjga1992.wordpress.com/2016/04/28/lets-do-all-this-to-promote-nudism/