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 have entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind; there was no other way to get it…
The convention miscalled modesty has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason, and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim, anyone's diseased caprice.
> Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
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We spend a large part of all that we earn on clothes. We devote a large proportion of our time to dressing or undressing, pressing, washing, mending, making over, planning, buying, packing, ironing, or fussing in some way over clothes. Our freedom of movement is hampered so that when we wish to exercise we must take them off. And then we have to put on clothes especially made for that purpose.
We have to have different kinds of clothes for different occasions, bathing suits, working clothes, dress suits, business suits, riding suits, walking suits, even night clothes. We are constantly conscious of our clothes, and very ill at ease if they are not the ones appropriate for the function in which we are engaged. We are constantly fearful lest we soil or tear them. We are humiliated if someone else of our acquaintance has more elaborate or expensive clothes or if the style changes more rapidly than our wardrobe can.
We are tempted and many of us yield to the temptation, to cover up our physical defects by a camouflage of clothing. We cannot go to a church or a lecture or a theater and get real intellectual enjoyment because we are so fearful lest there be something out of the way due to our clothes. And with all of our care and expense and worry, we are often very uncomfortable because of our clothes and sometimes suffer seriously in bodily health. What a fetish we have made of these bits of cloth and leather, buttons and feather.
Oh, if heaven is a place where everyone is happy and comfortable, I am going to pick a secluded part of the Elysian Fields where folks never wear clothes and where the fashion never changes. And, I fancy I will find congenial company there, too!
> Journal Common Sense, edited by William Calhoun Walker, 1919
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Never before did I get so close to Nature; never before did she come so close to me...
Nature was naked, and I was also. It was too lazy, soothing, and joyous-equable to speculate about. Yet I might have thought somehow in this vein: Perhaps the inner never-lost rapport we hold with earth, light, air, trees, &c., is not to be realized through eyes and mind only, but through the whole corporeal body, which I will not have blinded or bandaged any more than the eyes. 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 tear, your respectability, that is indecent. There come moods when these clothes of ours are not only too irksome to wear, but are themselves indecent. Perhaps indeed he or she to whom the free exhilarating extasy of nakedness in Nature has never been eligible (and how many thousands there are!) has not really known what purity is - nor what faith or art or health really is. (Probably the whole curriculum of first-class philosophy, beauty, heroism, form, illustrated by the old Hellenic race - the highest height and deepest depth known to civilization in those departments - came from their natural and religious idea of Nakedness.)
> Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, 1882
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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
> Angelius Silesius - priest, physician, mystic, religious poet
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What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed?
> Michelangelo
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There is no better way to get to know yourself than to experience the world of nudism/naturism. Putting nothing between you and nature is truly a way to come to know who you really are and how you really feel about yourself; inside and out.
There is no way to describe how you feel when you are one with nature. The sun seems to feel warmer, shine brighter. The wind doesn't feel angry and a nuisance but rather like a gentle set of hands massaging your body. Your stresses will be set free, your sanity will return, and you will wake each day with new determination. You will really feel as if you are "somewhere over the rainbow."
Nudity is a great social equalizer for class and wealth distinction. There are no Macy's vs. Wal-Mart's. Nudists are real people who don't pretend to be something they are not. These people generally like and accept others as God put them here. Nudists are people who believe that there is good in people who hide only behind their souls and not in material things.
And don't worry about your body. There are no ugly nude bodies, only bodies with different shapes and sizes. You'll be surprised at how comfortable you'll become with yourself. You will FEEL accepted as you are because you will BE accepted as you are.
It is the best thing that has ever happened to me. When life gets me down and I feel stress building up, I don't turn to drugs, alcohol, or any other short-term answer; I turn to God, I turn to my husband, and I turn to nature. Those three never let me down.
Try it. If you don't like it, you can always put your clothes back on....
> P Parker
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Nudity frees the body as meditation frees the mind, permitting us to be who we are. Being comfortable with private nudity requires a certain level of self-acceptance. Social nudity requires yet a higher level of self-acceptance, plus it offers us the added benefit of being unconditionally accepted by others. It allows us to relate to others without facades, pretentiousness or artificiality. The resulting sense of well-being is beyond compare. As is meditation, nudism is one of the most powerful tools for healing, self-discovery and spiritual growth available to anyone.
Nudism is a lifestyle that, in and of itself, not only fulfills all the criteria' of a 'growth experience' but also serves as a beautiful metaphor. Indeed, the shedding of our clothes is a metaphor for shedding attitudes and perceptions that may no longer be needed or appropriate, while accepting our God-given bodies is symbolic of learning who we are at levels yet to be experienced.
Nudism has much to offer in the way of growth, but it is seldom thought of in those terms. Unfortunately, stemming from our society's puritanical views of the human body and sexuality, nudism is one of the least understood practices in our society--often falsely associated with promiscuous sexual behavior. Misconceptions, such as these, coupled with a general lack of reliable information, have kept nudism in the closet and out of consideration as a legitimate form of recreation, therapy or spiritual practice.
> Daniel D. Ziegler, Naked Before God , Copyright 1999
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The girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field. With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside. With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm.
> George Orwell, 1984, Pt 1 Ch 3
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But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to restore my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed.
> Elizabeth Rosner, Notes on Nude-Beach Season, "Los Angeles Times", August 12, 2006
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
> George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. Tanner, in Man and Superman, act 1.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes-in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc. before one is sufficiently naked.
> Søren Kierkegaard (1813-55), Danish philosopher.
The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard: A Selection, no. 1395, (ed. and tr. by Alexander Dru, 1938), entry for 1854.
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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
> Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Walden, "Economy" (1854).
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The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: "Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?"
> Katharine Hamnett (b. 1948), British fashion designer. Independent on Sunday (London, 10 March 1991).
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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
> Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. Orlando, ch. 4 (1928).
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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
> Holy Bible, Genesis 2:25
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On Clothes
And the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes."
And he answered:
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 chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Some of you say, "It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear."
But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
> Khalil Gibran - "The Prophet", 1923
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"...the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve intact its splendor and its beauty......Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical shamelessness...Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a negative role with regard to the value of the person...The human body is not in itself shameful..."
> Karol Cardinal Woytyla (Pope John Paul II), Love & Responsibility, 1981, trans. of original 1960 Polish publication.
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"The fear that seeing naked people in some way harms children is not supported, however, by academic research. The small handful of studies on this topic in psychology and sociology have shown, instead, that children reared in an atmosphere containing family social nudity may benefit from the practice. If this is true, then proposed laws outlawing either social nudity in the home or children's participation at naturist (or nudist) settings are unjustified."
> Mark Storey in Children, Social Nudity and Scholarly Study
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"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
> Otto Von Bismarck, first Chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890
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"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 explainable."
> John Muir, founder of The Sierra Club
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"If it's so dirty to be naked, why do we get naked to get clean?"
> Bryan Maloney
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“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.”
> Terri Sue Webb in the Spring 2002 edition of Nude and Natural magazine in article entitled "Beyond Safe Havens: Oregon's Terri Sue Webb"
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"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 ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity."
> Dr. Lee Salk - psychiatrist
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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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Sure, some people might believe they are offended by nude bathers, but, if you never encounter anything that offends you in your community, you are not living in a free society.
> Corky Stanton, ClothesFree TV
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Nudity is undignified and an error of taste.
> Adolf Hitler
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I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.
> Charlize Theron - actress
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Alanis says even her parents share her habit of discarding their clothes at home. She added: "We all walked around naked when it was appropriate, there wasn't a lot of shame to it."
> Alanis Morissette Ananova - singer, songwriter, musician
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Because naturists don't think of sex when they undress, because naturists don't think of sex when they are engaged in wholesome family activities. Because naturists don't grab a towel for cover, after taking a shower in fear of having others view them in a 'sex obsessed' manner? Who are the perverts then?
> Unknown
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"The main hang-up in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can’t face up to the fact of other people being naked, or whatever they want to do, then we’re never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it’s none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what’s important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren’t, there would be peace."
> John Lennon
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Forcing others to wear clothes because we cannot control our own lust, is abuse of others.
> Unknown
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We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids too.
> Lynn Redgrave - actress
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Is it normal for us keep to our bodies covered in cloth 100% of the time? For some people, walking from the bathroom to the bedroom with no towel handy will cause them extreme panic and stress. Is this healthy? Being naked should just be another form of dress, nothing more, nothing less.
> Unknown
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
> D. H. Lawrence, The Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence, pt. 3, ed. by E. McDonald, 1936
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"My favorite thing is to be naked, which is why I always live in remote areas. My ideal is to wake in the morning and run around the meadows naked. I think it's a good idea to live in harmony with nature."
> Daryl Hannah - actress
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I think the main reason some people find breast feeding offensive is the fact that it reminds us that breasts are a food source and not an object of male fantasy that is further facilitated by the legal system that says breasts cannot be seen unless they belong to a male.
> Margaret Stone
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On the fourth day of telecommuting, I realized that clothes are totally unnecessary.
> Dilbert (Scott Raymond Adams)
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side . . . nudity is a shroud.
> Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, pt. 7, ch. 8 (1978; tr. 1980)
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"I spent time growing veggies, hanging out with my dogs, reading, doing yoga, being naked on the beach in Hawaii and just having fun." “I’ll go to any nude beach. I will take off my clothes in most circumstances. In fact, I even garden naked.”
> Alicia Silverstone - actress
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Naturist at Heart
I enjoy nakedness. I am a bit of a naturist at heart.
> Robbie Williams - singer, songwriter
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In Style magazine, Kevin Bacon confesses he likes to cut a little footloose at home with his family every now and then -- naked. "Not when the nanny is around," he says. "But I will with my wife and kids." Why? "There's something therapeutic about nudity ... Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same."
> Kevin Bacon - actor
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I believe that people have the right to their own beliefs. I do not feel people have got the right to stop me from expressing my beliefs by picking up the phone, calling the police and having me put in prison.
> Steven Gough - The Naked Rambler
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I like it here. When I go to the other swimming pools they all look at my legs. When I come here they look at me.
> 12 year old girl with Cerebral Palsy concerning a naturist swim
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Interviewer: "What is your fondest memory of your life?"
Cher: "Me and my kids naked on the beach on holiday in Tahiti."
> Cher
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"I like being nude. Apparently, you know, the Greeks were naked all the time. And my wife's all for it."
> Brad Pitt - actor
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Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.
> Mark Twain
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"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 - model, businesswoman, tv host, actress
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“In all it’s complexity, yet simplicity too, the human body is a most beautiful piece of art from our Creator.”
> The Naturist's Blog
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"I simply can’t understand why swimsuits are in such demand. They’re soggy and damp, bind like a clamp, and hold about three pounds of sand!!!"
> D. R. Benson
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Some day people will grow up and realize that the only thing vile about human bodies is the small minds some people have developed within them.
> Dick Hein
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Warning: Clothing has been shown to cause extreme psychological dependence. Wear it at your own risk.
> Ben Thornton - actor
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"I walk around naked all the time. I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends."
> Alanis Morissette Ananova - singer, songwriter, musician
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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 offensive "I'm offended" behavior whenever they saw a natural person walk by, without bothering the rest of us.
> Unknown
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Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
> John Updike "Going Barefoot" (1980; repr. in Hugging the Shore, 1983)
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Bathing led to nudity. Nudity led to promiscuity. So believed the colonial lawmakers of Pennsylvania and Virginia. Philadelphia was especially strict in those early years. You could be jailed there bathing more than once a month.
> Unknown
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Why would anyone want to teach their children their bodies are disgusting, unacceptable and offensive to even look at? Why would anyone want to teach their children self shame, self disgust and to despise their body or anyone else's body? Why would anyone set a bad example to their children by having a prejudicial bigotry against another group of people?
> Unknown
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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth.
> F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms, no. 88 (1930)
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Gymnophobia is a fear (phobia) of nudity. Gymnophobics experience anxiety from nudity, even if they realize their fear is irrational. They may worry about seeing others naked or being seen naked, or both. Their fear may stem from a general anxiety about sexuality, from a fear that they are physically inferior, or from a fear that their nakedness leaves them exposed and unprotected. The word "Gymnophobia" is derived from the Greek "gymnos" (naked).
> Wikipedia definition
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At my house in Hokendauqua, I can walk around naked in the back yard -- and have.
> Matt Millen, Raiders Football Player...
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Often I’m asked by non-nudists what nudists do when it gets cold. My answer is that we wear clothes, we’re nudists, not stupid. I follow this by asking my inquirer if they wear clothes when it gets hot or when swimming? Inevitably the answer yes, to which I respond, “then who is the nonsensical one”?
> Steven Bebell - Christian nudist writer
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
> Padma Lakshmi - author, model, activist, tv host
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Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
> Steve Jobs
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Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
> William Blake - poet, painter
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If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.
> Stevie Nicks - singer, songwriter
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Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
> Auguste Rodin - sculptor
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
> Philip Yancey - author
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To write well you must be willing to go naked into the world.
> Daniel Keys Moran - programmer, writer
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When we strip away the clothes, the jewelry, that's who we really are. I walk around naked in my house.
> Leonor Varela - actress
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If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone's naked. It's not a bad thing.
> Gigi Hadid - model, tv personality
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In all the writers I admire, the common detonator is their courage to walk naked.
> Richard Flanagan - writer
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I cook naked, and I walk around naked. I'm very comfortable with my body.
> Tracee Ellis Ross - actress
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I could live naked... I love it.
> Olivier Theyskens - fashion designer
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
> Nadine Velazquez - actress, model
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I find nothing wrong with the naked body.
> Moira Kelly - actress
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
> Candice Swanepoel - model
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I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
> Kylie Bax - model, actress
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I've learned that I work best when I'm entirely naked. The recording process was done that way.
> Emilie Autumn - singer, songwriter, poet, author, violinist
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I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.
> Lesley-Anne Down - actress, singer, former model
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Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.
> John Donne - poet, scholar, soldier
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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste.
> Peter McWilliams - author
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But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to restore my sense of blissful innocence. It takes me back to that place of my almost forgotten childhood, where I got to run around undressed without anyone telling me I had to cover up or be embarrassed.
> Elizabeth Rosner - novelist, author, essayist, poet
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Sight, Smell, Hearing, Taste and Touch. It is abhorrent to limit or lose our ability to use the first four senses when it’s not needed. Why then is it seen as “Normal” to be required to limit our ability to touch or feel the world around us when it’s not needed? Clothing robs us of comfort, mobility, physical well-being, self acceptance, acceptance of others, and the freedom of connecting to the world around us in the most natural, wholesome and holistic way.
> Steve Bebell - Christian nudist writer