Quotes about Naturism.

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This is a home for quotable remarks and comments (good and bad) about naturism from famous people and celebrities.
Please attribute the quote if you can.

Let me kick it off with this one...

"Sometimes I like to run naked in the moonlight and the wind, on a little trail behind our house, when the honeysuckle blooms. It's a feeling of freedom, so close to God and nature."
--Dolly Parton

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"There's something therapeutic about nudity.  Clothing is one of the external things about a character.  Take away the Gucci or Levi's and we're all the same."

-- Kevin Bacon

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“An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!”

― Ramana Pemmaraju

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“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

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"Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind."

- Mark Twain

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"I was born naked and I'm going to die naked so I don't see anything wrong with it."
- Justin Timberlake (who said wants to strip off on a nudist beach after spotting one in France.)

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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 Colonies."

- John Lennon

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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 than the garment with which it is clothed?"

Michelangelo

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"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

- William Blake

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"You'll never catch a nudist with their pants down."

- David Letterman

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"Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things."

- Edgar Rice Burroughs

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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."

- Elle Macpherson

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"Furthermore, because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.”

 – Pope John Paul II

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“We find that relaxing with clothes off at Elysium Fields [Naturist Resort] is a great tension reliever, for ourselves and our kids too.”

- Lynn Redgrave, actress

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"If man were meant to be naked, he would have been born naked."

 – Oscar Wilde