QUOTES 11/13/2018

“I have thought about this for a while, looking for a way to express how I feel about hiking, the outdoors and being naked. . . I have often thought that there is a spiritual feeling from being in nature.  Yesterday’s USA Today had an article in the life section that spoke of a preacher, rabbi and scholar who give more or less sermons in the great outdoors.  How one can open up and lose all connection to the outside world and let nature direct you to God.  Most important to me was the fact that before churches God spoke to his people through nature and even Jesus did most of his teaching outdoors.  I don't pretend to be overly religious but I often feel that connection when I am alone in the woods. . . Being naked . . . just comfortable shoes and your true self to connect with nature and your God.” – Nude Walker

“WORLD NUDISM & NATURISM DOCUMENTARY. United Kingdom - Clothes Optional: fragment 1996” Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHDTcwGzpAY&index=23&list=PLrNU052C5E-lGV7CYl2s1y2XNGLa4IWw2

“Let's be real: on a hot day, many people would enjoy being at the beach or by the pool.  However, many people don't do that nude because it's ‘weird’ or because they're uncomfortable with themselves/how other people see them.  I think more people would go nude regularly if it were taught that it's not weird, and if more people were also nude.  If nudity were taught as appropriate in certain circumstances, more people would partake in it.  Nudity wouldn't be some strange thing that you don't do around others/outside/etc. because it's ‘bad’.  The human body wouldn't be such an overly sexualized thing to many, either.” – Nudistlang, https://www.reddit.com/r/nudism/comments/5kff24/nudism_needs_to_burn_itself_and_rebuild

“I take for granted really results from the exceptionally wealthy . . . [naturist] lifestyle I enjoy.  I live in a highly developed country with astonishing medical and other facilities.  Cutting edge tech is a way of life.  I have abundant resources of many kinds.” - Honhouniheart, https://clothesfreelife.com/2017/01/04/natural-woman/

“Fabric-Free in the Name of Body Love?” - Claire Fallon, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/nudism-problems_n_7647806.html

“Summer brought more nude hiking opportunities.  In May about 9 of us from New England and New York had a good hike and picnic lunch on the west side of Harriman Reservoir in southern Vermont.  In mid-June I joined six friends from the Eastern Naturist Gathering to explore Huggins Lake in the Catskills, and then on subsequent days some of us explored two other trails near the Delaware River at the New York/Pennsylvania border.  For the summer solstice (AKA Naked Hiking Day on the Appalachian Trail) a group of 19 of us -- the largest yet in the 10-year history of this event -- met to do a 10-mile hike along the AT in Vermont, culminating in a skinny-dip in beautiful Little Rock Pond.” – Milt, Skinny Trippers email