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I will go to the bank by the wood July 28th, 2012
I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked, : I am mad for it to be in contact with me.
- Walt Whitman: From Song of Myself (1855)
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The perfect Brahmachari July 28th, 2012
'The perfect Brahmachari was a man who could lie by the side of Venus in all her naked beauty without being physically or mentally disturbed.'
- Mahatma Gandhi, concerning non-sexual nudity as it relates to a greater spiritual development.
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Nudity is undignified July 28th, 2012
"Nudity is undignified and an error of taste."
- Adolf Hitler
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My protests are human-rights oriented July 28th, 2012
"My protests are human-rights oriented. It's not about sexual nudity or free love or taking drugs and jumping over fires in forests. If anything, it's spiritual. I just think you should have the right to walk down the street naked. I firmly... [Read More] | |
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Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity July 28th, 2012
"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from... [Read More] | |
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty July 28th, 2012
"Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a drain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your... [Read More] | |
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Conformity is the jailer of freedom July 28th, 2012
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
- JFK
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Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature July 28th, 2012
"Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! --ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then indecent? No, not inherently. It is your thought, your sophistication, your fear, your... [Read More] | |
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Clothing encourages us to fill it, to consume more July 28th, 2012
"Clothing encourages us to fill it, to consume more. If the effects of our behavior and habits upon our bodies were generally visible, people would take care of themselves and be healthier."
- activist Terri Sue Webb in an interview with Daniel Johnson on 16 Dec 2001
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To be offended by the visual appearance of another person July 28th, 2012
“To be offended by the visual appearance of another person is prejudice, akin to racism. The right to exist, uncovered, should hold precedence over the right not to view [nudity], for the objection is irrational.”
- activist Terri Sue Webb in the Spring 2002 edition of... [Read More] | |
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes July 28th, 2012
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau "Walden"
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Everybody should run through the streets [naked] at least once July 28th, 2012
"Everybody should run through the streets [naked] at least once. If you can do that, chances are you can have a lot of fun in other areas of your life."
- Madonna, singer
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I just love having no clothes on outside July 28th, 2012
"I just love having no clothes on outside, and the only time to do that is when the sun's shining. It's a wonderful sensation to not have any clothes on."
- P.J. Harvey, singer
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If it's so dirty to be naked July 28th, 2012
"If it's so dirty to be naked, why do we get naked to get clean?"
- Bryan Maloney
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What a singular fact for an angel visitant July 28th, 2012
"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"
- Henry David Thoreau, Journals
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It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank July 28th, 2012
"It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau
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I do not want to live with a soul without a body July 28th, 2012
"I do not want to live with a soul without a body. Nudity is the reflection of innocence. I hate the word obscenity. What is obscene is cheating others."
- Kamala Surayya (Madhavikutty) renowned Indo-Anglican writer (from Jan... [Read More] | |
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I want people to feel uncomfortable that they've demonized the body, July 28th, 2012
"I want people to feel uncomfortable that they've demonized the body, I want them to feel uncomfortable at first and then realize it's just skin. Yes, the body can be a shape."
- Spencer Tunick, during an interview with... [Read More] | |
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I wish we were all naked all the time July 28th, 2012
"I wish we were all naked all the time, ... I have always believed it is what's underneath that counts. If we were all forced to be naked, perhaps we would start to see that a little bit more."
- Celine Dion, in the U.K. Sun
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The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity July 28th, 2012
“The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can’t face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we’re never going to get anywhere. People have got to become... [Read More] | |
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The best thing to do would be to designate everywhere as clothing optional July 28th, 2012
"The best thing to do would be to designate everywhere as clothing optional, and we could leave little fenced in areas for the prudes to prance around in. Call them "Prudist Camps". They could peer out of their fences and indulge in their... [Read More] | |
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you should not be persecuted or victimized July 28th, 2012
"... you should not be persecuted or victimized for being born human, with a human body - NAKED!"
- Vincent Bethell, from the web site "Human Race Activism"
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What spirit is so empty and blind July 28th, 2012
"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot grasp the fact that the human foot is more noble than the shoe and the human skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
- Michelangelo
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When I cast off my clothes July 28th, 2012
When I cast off my clothes, I cast off my cares!
- Sir Horace Walpole
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We are by nature all as one July 28th, 2012
"We are by nature all as one, all alike, if you see us naked..."
- John Burton (1576-1640)
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I don't want to facilitate the power July 28th, 2012
"I don't want to facilitate the power structure with my conformity, "
- The Naked Guy, Andrew Martinez
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body freedom is a basic human right July 28th, 2012
"body freedom is a basic human right"
- DLJ
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No prison for nudity July 28th, 2012
"No prison for nudity"
- DLJ
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Body Acceptance is the Idea, Nude Recreation is the way July 28th, 2012
"Body Acceptance is the Idea, Nude Recreation is the way"
- Lee Baxandall, founder of the Naturist Society
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if you can't even safely be naked in public then where can you? July 28th, 2012
"if you can't even safely be naked in public then where can you?"
- DLJ
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nude is not lewd July 28th, 2012
"nude is not lewd"
- a nudist/naturist saying
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the human body is neither offensive nor inappropriate July 28th, 2012
"the human body is neither offensive nor inappropriate"
- adapted from FTBY principles and Terri Sue Webb statements
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be nude, be natural July 28th, 2012
"be nude, be natural"
- a nudist/naturist saying
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Restore dignity to the human body and soul July 28th, 2012
"Restore dignity to the human body and soul"
- DLJ
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Don't arrest me I was born this way July 28th, 2012
"Don't arrest me I was born this way"
- seen on a the body of a Naked Mile participant
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body shame is not a family value July 28th, 2012
"body shame is not a family value"
- adapted from "hate is not a family value" | |
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body acceptance is a good idea July 28th, 2012
"body acceptance is a good idea"
- adapted from naturist principles
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legalize the human body July 28th, 2012
"legalize the human body"
- adapted from FTBY principles
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Government has no business setting dress codes July 28th, 2012
"Government has no business setting dress codes – period."
- Dave Bitters, Naturist Action Committee representative, in a letter posted in the Summer 2002 (21.4) issue of Nude and Natural (N) magazine
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Full nakedness! All joys are to thee. July 28th, 2012
"Full nakedness! All joys are to thee."
John Donne, major English poet and writer, written in 1598
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Wearing nothing is divine. Naked is a state of mind July 28th, 2012
"Wearing nothing is divine. Naked is a state of mind. I take things off to clear my head, to say the things I haven`t said. I live inside my elements - the earth and sky are my best friends. Water is the evidence that washes me from end... [Read More] | |
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The body seems to feel beauty when exposed July 28th, 2012
"The body seems to feel beauty when exposed to it as it feels the campfire or sunshine, entering not by the eyes alone, but equally through all one's flesh like radiant heat, making a passionate ecstatic pleasure glow not... [Read More] | |
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With a little inner pirouette of excitement July 28th, 2012
With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to... [Read More] | |
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It (sunning nude) was a liberating experience July 28th, 2012
"It (sunning nude) was a liberating experience. It felt unbelievably crazy to take off all my clothes and play in the sun. I've not had that much fun in so long."
- Amy Grant, Ladies Home Journal Dec. 1985
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For a time Jack was angry July 28th, 2012
"For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed is infinitely more uncomfortable than being entirely naked. Soon he did not miss his clothing in the least,... [Read More] | |
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! July 28th, 2012
"This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not... [Read More] | |
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How idiotic civilization is July 28th, 2012
"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?"
- Katherine Mansfield
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed July 28th, 2012
"Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind,... [Read More] | |
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rgue for your limitations and they're yours July 28th, 2012
"Argue for your limitations and they're yours."
- Richard Bach, from Illusions
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There is much to support the view that it is our clothes July 28th, 2012
"There is much to support the view that it is our clothes that wear us and not we who wear them... They mold our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking."
- Virginia Wolf, Orlando (1956)
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I come from a country where you don`t wear clothes most of the year July 28th, 2012
"I come from a country where you don`t wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state. I was born nude and I hope to be buried nude."
- Elle MacPherson, Australian model and actress
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Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb July 28th, 2012
“Be glad, my merry friends, and let the warm sunlight heat now heart and limb! Cast off these cold rags! Run naked on the grass, while Tom goes a-hunting!”
- Tom Bombadil in J.R.R.Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings
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I think everyone should be able to run around naked July 28th, 2012
"I think everyone should be able to run around naked. I don't think I did anything wrong".
(Deb Ballou, from Going Natural, Vol. 17, Number 1)
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Gymnophobia July 28th, 2012
"Gymnophobia (from the Greek word for nude gymnos) is the fear of being (or seeing others) naked. A gymnophobic person usually wants to prevent others from experiencing the freedom of not wearing clothes."
- Anon
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we ought to be able to be comfortable being naked July 28th, 2012
"... we ought to be able to be comfortable being naked, and it doesn't have to be about sex."
- Patricia Arquette, actress, in the May 2002 Paper magazine interview about her latest role in the movie "Human Nature"
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We are so narrow minded that we show war July 28th, 2012
"We are so narrow minded that we show war, murder, rape, etc. on TV, but we do not allow to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in its natural form."
- Mario Roman
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A child who has never been allowed July 28th, 2012
"A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking."
- Dr. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt, Show Me (New York: St. Martin`s Press, 1975).
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If I am pushed into clothing for the sake of a trial July 28th, 2012
"If I am pushed into clothing for the sake of a trial, this aids the prosecution in its designation of my 'appearing naked' as a deed in itself, an act with intent, when its not an act, its simply what I am, what we all are. The judge has ordered that I appear 'appropriately... [Read More] | |
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The visual appearance of the human body July 28th, 2012
"The visual appearance of the human body is our human identity and we should not be forced to fear or hide our identity."
- Vincent Bethell, from the web site "Human Race Activism"
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Those who, while they disapprove of the character July 28th, 2012
"Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of government, yield to it their allegiance and support are ... frequently the most serious obstacles to reform."
- Henry David Thoreau
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Laws against public nudity stem July 28th, 2012
"Laws against public nudity stem from people's unease with the human body. It makes people uneasy that others are comfortable enough to be naked in public, when they are not".
(Katie Mann, from article in Going Natural, Vol. 17, Number... [Read More] | |
