Skyclad Spirit

Pleased to see I made the cut.

Liz Egger: What makes nudists especially nice remains a mystery. Perhaps nudism attracts the most pleasant individuals in the first place or maybe the practice of nudism somehow improves people. Who knows? And, really, who cares? Let’s just enjoy the situation.

Cheers! 🍻

Hope you managed some quality Moon bathing too.

Janet Tawakalna:

With my naked eye,
I have learned to see
Beyond human imperfection.
My naked view
Has given me
a different perception
Of the natural beauty
That exists in all.
I can see it on the faces
Of my naturist
And nudist friends
Of all ages and all races.

Mary Jane Kolassa: Naturism is based in the belief that the human body in its natural state should be celebrated, not concealed. It helps foster self-esteem, self-respect, and respect for others and the environment.

Mary Jane Saunders: Shame about our bodies is a taught behaviour, not an inherent truth. Naturism teaches us to unlearn it through the simple act of being ourselves, uncovered.

Eric Stefanut: Nudity generates mutual vulnerability, and out of that is born a form of respect, where I take care of you and you take care of me. It’s the opposite of what people imagine.

Victoria Bateman: I want to show that behind every naked woman is a real thinking woman. It’s not just about me. I want to show that behind every body is a brain.

Barry Knell: Wearing clothes is like blindfolding the skin - you can't feel the world around you as you should. Take off your shoes and feel the grass beneath your feet. Then take off your clothes and feel the sun and the air and the world.

Ella Kopelman (on WNBR events): For the first time, I felt like a normal human being with a body like everyone else’s. Being naked somehow felt like a superpower.

Howard Zinn: To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.

Reminds me of a snippet from a David Bowie track: 'Ugly as a tennage millionaire pretending it's a whizz kid world'.

I'd recognise her anywhere. Top photo!

Hans Bender: Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

Lois Ann Horowitz:

Why should I want to separate
My being from the world around?
Indeed, I never hesitate
To drop my garments on the ground
And face the sea as I was born,
With nothing left to mask or hide.
I’m naked as a peppercorn;
Clothed naturally, I meet the tide.

Walt Whitman: I exist as I am, that is enough.

Bernard M Baruch: Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Catherynne M Valente: Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Janis Joplin: You better not compromise yourself. It’s all you got.

Howard Zinn: To live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvellous victory.

Cec Cinder: The nudist idea is really quite simple: there is no such thing as obscene body parts, and that rather than being an object of shame and ridicule the human body is an amazing and remarkable organism.

Robert Brown: To change people's opinion and improve the perception of naturism, we need to have more events like this so it becomes the norm and acceptable.

Exactly. We need to be visable, undisguised and not anonymous.

Daniel Johnson: Clothing should be optional in public, the same way that wearing a hat or sunglasses is optional. The human body is not inherently obscene.

Hans Bender: Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

John Burroughs: I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

William Blake: Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

Anonymous: To be nude and unashamed is to comply with the designer's instructions.

George Bernard Shaw: People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.