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Title: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:39:39 pm
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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:40:28 pm
"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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:45:10 pm
“An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!”

― Ramana Pemmaraju
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:47:06 pm
“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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:48:07 pm
"Nudity is a state of fact; lewdity, to coin a phrase, is a state of mind."

- Mark Twain
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:49:15 pm
"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.)
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:50:54 pm
"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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:53:57 pm
"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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:54:43 pm
"Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed."

- William Blake
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Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:55:52 pm
"You'll never catch a nudist with their pants down."

- David Letterman
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:57:26 pm
"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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 06:57:57 pm
"I come from a country where you don't wear clothes most of the year. Nudity is the most natural state."

- Elle Macpherson
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:00:22 pm
"Furthermore, because God created it, the human body can remain nude and uncovered and preserve its splendour and its beauty.”

 – Pope John Paul II
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:01:03 pm
“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
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:01:54 pm
"If man were meant to be naked, he would have been born naked."

 – Oscar Wilde
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Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:03:10 pm
"All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?"

  – George Bernard Shaw, playwright 1856-1950
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:04:35 pm
“I’d go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I’d read nonstop. And I’d be reading naked.”

 – Linda Hamilton (actress), on what she’d do with a day to herself.
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 15, 2017, 07:06:18 pm
“I’m a naturist at heart.  I love being on beaches where everyone is naked. Ugly young people, beautiful old people, whatever. It’s so unsexual and so liberating…”

- Dame Helen Mirren.
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Hayley on September 16, 2017, 10:13:12 am
"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet." - Bob Dylan

"I love being naked. I'm a free spirit." - Alessandra Torresani

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up." - Marilyn Monroe
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Brendarella on September 16, 2017, 12:30:37 pm
"A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet." - Bob Dylan

"I love being naked. I'm a free spirit." - Alessandra Torresani

"The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up." - Marilyn Monroe

Love these.  And Marylin had a point.
Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Hayley on September 17, 2017, 08:30:28 am
Love these.  And Marylin had a point.

She's inspiring in so many ways :smiley:

Title: Re: Quotes about Naturism.
Post by: Hayley on September 17, 2017, 08:30:42 am
"My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked." - Daryl Hannah

"I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked" - Oscar de la Renta

"When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?" - Carl Jung