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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

Loving Nature Naturally: 060118

"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

Daily Dose of Naturism: 011818

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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photography by Staxus

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We are so narrow minded that we show war, murder, and rape on TV, but we are not allowed to show one of the most wonderful creations (the human body) in its natural form.

~Mario Roman

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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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The Dancing Faun, (1919) André Kertész

~*~

"Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there is all the difference in the world. It is as if your clothes take on the weight of your worries and concerns – they come to embody your defenses against the world, and if you can feel confident enough and safe enough, then taking them off evokes a powerful sense of liberation, of joy and freedom; and more than that – of innocence and of openness to the world."

~Philip Carr-Gomm, The Druid Way

~*~

Matias Santos by Gastohn Barrios

 Matias Santos by Gastohn Barrios

Matias Santos by Gastohn Barrios

Robert Dekkers by Tricia Cronin

by Nude-Soul Photography

Zack Johnathan aka Zack Vasquez

Sean Patrick from PlayGirl

by cable9tuba photography

by 3feathers photography

Drew Bacchae by Jeff Linn Photography

by Nude-Soul Photography

The Warwick Rowers by Angus Malcolm

The Warwick Rowers

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photography by Gemeos VB

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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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 Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, 

yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy 

you may find in them a harness and a chain.

Would that you could meet the sun and the wind 

with more of your skin and less of your raiment,

For the breath of life is in the sunlight 

and the hand of life is in the wind.

Some of you say, 

"It is the north wind who has woven the clothes to wear."

But shame was his loom, 

and the softening of the sinews was his thread.

And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.

Forget not that modesty is for a shield 

against the eye of the unclean.

And when the unclean shall be no more, 

what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?

And forget not that the earth delights 

to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Kahlil Gibran 

'On Clothes' from The Prophet

Jayden Guillory by Rick Day

 by Kiu Meireles

 by  o v e r e x p o s e d

 by Luces de Bengala

 by Robert James

 by Andrei Panafidin

 by Marwane Pallas

 Chance by Club2001

 Jayden Guillory by Rick Day

 by Ron Amato

 by F. Holland Day

by Patrick Lebrun

 by Gemeos VB

 by Eloi Biosca

 by Ryan McGinley

 by Ryan McGinley

 by  o v e r e x p o s e d