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"Nature and people are simply part of one another.  If we bring our awareness to what is around us and within us, this becomes obvious.  We cannot be considered separate.  The natural world is at the very heart of our being.  If we are willing to listen and pay attention to nature, we will begin to recognize our innate sense of connection and belonging.  Mindfulness of the natural world will probably be one of our deepest experiences and our greatest opportunities to feel truly alive."

~Claire Thompson

(Mindfulness and the Natural World)

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"All of nature offers lessons on living, free of charge. One morning I noticed a dead tree supporting many living things--fungus, vines, lichen--which taught me that even after death we can continue to support those who live on. Living trees on our property teach other lessons. One tree has grown around a barbed wire fence. Another has grown around a nail, and a third through a chain link fence. These trees teach me how to accept irritation, absorb the pain and grow around problems. Nature teaches me how to find my place, grow toward the sunlight and bypass obstacles. To survive, we must be able to change in response to whatever is required by the challenge of the moment. Our bodies know this, but our minds often rebel when change is necessary."

~Bernie S. Siegel

~*~

"A waterfall begins from only one drop of water, sir. 

Look what comes from that..."

P.K. from the film, The Power of One

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“I only went out for a walk 

and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, 

for going out, I found, 

was really going in.”

~John Muir 

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by Studio MG photography

~*~

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grass and gentians of glacier meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of Nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.

~John Muir

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"Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself."

~Kent Nerburn 

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photography by Eloi Biosca

~*~

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth 

find reserves of strength 

that will endure as long as life lasts. 

There is something infinitely healing 

in the repeated refrains of nature--

the assurance that dawn comes after night, 

and spring after winter.

~Rachel Carson

(Silent Spring)

Rachel is one of my favorite Superheroes

There is an excellent Bio-Doc on NetFlix

About Rachel's life and work

I Highly Recommend it

It's one of those important ones that everyone should see

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Clothing 

is but a mask of civilization 

that we are trying to escape 

by going to nature in the first place.

~Unknown

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"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely, or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature, and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

~Anne Frank

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photo by John Bortolin

~*~

"Nature and people are simply part of one another. If we bring our awareness to what is around us and within us, this becomes obvious. We cannot be considered separate. The natural world is at the very heart of our being. If we are willing to listen and pay attention to nature, we will begin to recognize our innate sense of connection and belonging. Mindfulness of the natural world will probably be one of our deepest experiences and our greatest opportunities to feel truly alive."

~Claire Thompson

(Mindfulness and the Natural World)

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"What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!"

~Henry David Thoreau

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"Human beings to me are 

as much a part of nature as trees or birds, 

and the unclothed body expresses 

this belongingness directly and powerfully."

~Wynn Bullock

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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

I love not Man the less, but Nature more."

~Lord Byron 

("Childe Harold's Pilgrimage")

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“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” 

~Henry David Thoreau

(Walden: Or, Life in the Woods)

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Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one’s relationship with the spirit of nature. To be naked is to be open-hearted. Normally kids stay naked until puberty and even beyond. It was only with the introduction of cheap cloth from the West, through Goodwill and other Christian organisations, that nakedness began to be associated with shame.

~Malidoma Some, 

('Of Water and the Spirit')

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Clothes make the man, 

but nakedness makes the human being.

~Kevin Kearney

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We have come into the world naked, 

and all the animals are naked, 

why should man hide his body behind clothes?

~Osho

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Going naked is one of the great freedoms that hippies discovered. Feeling the air and water on your exposed skin is both thrilling and invigorating. Puritan values and modesty be damned! Hippies weren't about to compromise. Nude beaches, nude sunbathing and swimming, nudist colonies, all proliferated thanks to hippies. Nudism puts us closer to nature. It erases our sexual hang-ups and fears, by dissolving the psychological link between nakedness and sex, thus letting us relax and enjoy the beauty of the human body.

~from the book, Hippies from A to Z ,by Skip Stone 

You can read the book online for free (link)

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Human beings to me 

are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, 

and the unclothed body expresses 

this belongingness directly and powerfully.

~Wynn Bullock

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photography by Gemeos VB

~*~

Naturism offers a way of being 

that dares to suggest 

that who we are 

without any additions or covering up 

is all we need to be.

~Philip Carr-Gomm

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I go now to the wilderness to be a part of it; 

to accept my place in the world and its place in me; 

to grow into reality as a tree grows into the rain, 

to conform to the Earth 

as a stream conforms to the stones of its bed.  

To live.  To aspire.  To be.

~William Ashworth