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== kid carrier ==
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You have lately stood a newborn, as well as congratulations have been in get! The good news is you happen to be itching to emerge from your house, struck the particular trail or even embark on getaway. One of several most effective to transport your child and make the hands free of charge is by using a youngster carrier. Here's how you can shop.
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:''See also [[Slogans]].''
  
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Quotes by WNBR participants, quotes to inspire riders etc...
  
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==Quotes from World Naked Bike Ride organizers and participants==
  
The Basics associated with Little one Carriers
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:'''"...inject the hearts of our neighbourhoods with the reality of our beautiful bodies which have developed over millions of years into their current perfect beingness. Join hundreds of naked compatriots in a free, non-sexual, fun bike ride."''' <br />– ''Aurora, WNBR Chicago''
  
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:'''"WNBR is the most exhilerating cycling experience since taking off your training wheels."'''<br />– ''Daniel Johnson, WNBR Seattle''
  
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:'''"Bikes and naked bodies harm nobody - car fumes and accidents kill tens of thousands every year in the UK alone and are driving us all to climate chaos. It is time more motorists stripped off their armour plating and moved around more gently on this earth."'''<br /> - ''Duncan Blinkhorn, Brighton WNBR''
  
Your first choice for a newborn can be an baby carrier. It is a basic, frameless bunch which snuggles your infant in the front person. Most hold an infant and several infant products with a full fat as high as Twenty-five or perhaps 40 pounds. Toddler providers tend to be incredibly hassle-free regarding around-town employ and air travel.
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:'''"Be the unabashed vehicle of the revolution! Bare skin beats painted metal! The shame is on oil-dependency, not on us!"'''<br /> - ''Daniel Johnson, WNBR Seattle''
  
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:'''"The Auckland World Naked Bike Ride’s purpose was to draw attention to oil dependency and the negative social and environmental impacts of a car dominated culture. Last year 250 Aucklanders were killed by vehicle emissions, and 94 people died in car accidents on the roads of Auckland alone."'''<br />– ''Simon Oosterman, WNBR Auckland (NZ) <!--13 Feb 2005-->organizer, union worker and climate justice campaigner<!-- in central Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand-->''
  
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:'''"We ride bikes to protest oil dependency.  We ride naked to symbolize cyclists' vulnerability on the road."'''<br />  '''"When I ride, I feel like all the motor vehicles are giant hammers.  I'm an egg. (...a hard boiled egg if I've got my helmet on - but still an egg!)."''' <br />  '''"An aggressive cyclist can irritate and annoy drivers.  An aggressive driver can injure or kill cyclists."''' <br />–''Jenn Farr, WNBR Ottawa''
  
A young child service provider usually includes a framework which is designed to carry a bigger little one guiding anyone. To employ a child carrier, a child have to be effective at sitting up with no help. The smallest little one right for a young child carrier is about Sixteen weight., that generally implies a young child concerning Some or Eight a few months aged. If uncertain regarding your little one's willingness, consult your own physician just before going. The largest child proper to be able to ride in a very company is all about Forty five lbs., with many designs assisting better weight to accommodate products, also.
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:'''"Our message to the world is one of simplification, human harmony and love. For a future to exist for tomorrows generations, we have to stop wasting the life blood energy of the Earth, stop fighting and killing in the name of consumerist wealth accumulation and learn to love and respect all life on this planet."'''<br />– ''Conrad Schmidt, founder of The Work Less Party and Artists for Peace and WNBR and organizer for WNBR Vancouver, BC''
  
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:'''"Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy."''' <br />–''As seen on a [[Newcastle]] flyer''[http://www.flickr.com/photos/69522018@N00/3535175396/]
  
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:'''"World Naked Bike Ride exuberantly celebrates a future of human-powered transport and healthy, clean, green walkable cities with simple, grassroots naked bike rides all over the world. As the vessel of this revolution, we highlight the beauty, power and individuality of the naked human body with an aim of promoting body-positive values, self-awareness, simple healthy living and independence from consumerist, toxic, oil-dependent and car culture paradigms that are killing us."'''<br />– ''Daniel Johnson, WNBR [[Seattle]]''
  
Youngster providers are a great selection for journey, walking and employ about. Because the extra bodyweight and also activity of one's youngster might lead to that you lose the account balance, kid providers are not suited to trekking upon free stone, ascending, skiing, inline roller skating, bicycling or another high-speed actions.
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==Inspirational quotes==
  
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:'''“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Apple Computer|Apple Computers]], from 'Think Different' advertising campaign''
  
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:'''“Everyone knew it was impossible, except for one idiot who went ahead and did it”'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Marcel Pagnol|Marcel Pagnol]], film maker, 1895-1974''
  
Assess Features
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:'''"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Richard Bach|Richard Bach]], from Illusions''
  
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:'''"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."''' <br /> – ''[[Wikipedia:William Hutchinson Murray|William Hutchinson Murray]]''
  
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:'''"Don't just have a nice day, Create Yourself a Great Day!"'''<br />–Anonymous
  
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==Body-positive quotes==
  
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:'''"Laws against public nudity stem from people's unease with the human body. It makes people uneasy that others are comfortable enough to be naked in public, when they are not."'''<br />– ''Katie Mann, from article in Going Natural, Vol 17, No 2''
  
Many kid carriers reveal fundamental characteristics such as adaptable make and also waistline band, adaptable kid utilize, a foldout kickstand as well as an outside body. Match is the vital thing. Megan Nelson, REI Washington products consultant, offers these hints: "The in shape is the same as a backpack, apart from the body weight rides larger. Even so, the body weight really is not much of the matter if your kid provider suits you right.Inches
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:'''"A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking"'''<br />– ''Dr Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt, 'Show Me' (New York: St Martin's Press, 1975)''
  
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:'''"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity"'''<br />– ''Dr Lee Salk, psychiatrist''
  
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:'''"The visual appearance of the human body is our human identity and we should not be forced to fear or hide our identity"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Vincent Bethell|Vincent Bethell]]''
  
Below are a few with the parameters to take into account:
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:'''"Everybody should run through the streets [naked] at least once. If you can do that, chances are you can have a lot of fun in other areas of your life."'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]], singer''
  
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:'''"It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]]''
  
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==Quotes for cycling==
  
Suspensions program: This is the answer to parent convenience. Many child providers characteristic a good easy-to-adjust step ladder insides, just like the versions found in a lot of back packs. <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.thepiggybackrider.com/ <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none!important; background:none!important; text-decoration:none;/*CITATION*/">kid carrier</span>]</span> A young child carrier's adjustability is actually tested by the body assortment (listed within the Specs tabs about REI.org product internet pages). Read more about how exactly to be able to determine your current core dimensions. Body modifications are pretty straight forward: If you're on the taller aspect, proceed your suspensions establishing greater on the rear (as well as, if you're a quicker mature, move this to some reduce environment). A few types include a fixed suspensions, which limitations adjustability, nevertheless provide fat personal savings.
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:'''"Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil."'''<br />''President George W Bush, State of the Union, 31 January 2006''
  
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:'''"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race."'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:H. G. Wells|H G Wells]]''
  
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:'''"On Earth the problem had been with cars.  The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another -- particularly when the place you arrived at has probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e., covered with tar, full of smoke, and short of fish."''' -- <br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams]]'', The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  
Kickstand: This tavern supplies a stable system pertaining to launching and unloading your son or daughter. The majority of might be personally expanded as well as retracted for the launching place using a easy pull. Various other designs include a fixed-position kickstand (which usually saves a little bit of fat) or a spring-loaded kickstand (which usually stretches as well as folds over automatically-a good feature). These all accomplish exactly the same objective, therefore private personal preference may be the choosing element the following.
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:'''"People are looking for places where they're not constantly being confronted with cars. It's just like non-smokers seeking smoke-free space."''' <br />– ''[[Wikipedia:de:Franziska Eichstaedt-Bohlig|Franziska Eichstaedt-Bohlig]]'', German Green Party
  
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:'''"Watch any TV show, listen to any radio program, look through any magazine or newspaper and you will come across ads showing how cars will make you cool, sexy, popular, respected, at one with nature, safe, etc. The car and oil industries spend billions of dollars each year to promote a benign image of driving, but the function of all this is to assure profits and manipulate consumers, and nothing more."'''<br />– ''Go By Bicycle''
  
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:'''"If you see someone you know while riding, it's easy to stop and say hello. Bicycles create public space, enhance street life and build a sense of community"'''<br />– ''Go By Bicycle''
  
Framework: As noted before, frameless companies are intended only for babies and also items totaling as much as 25 lbs. possibly even. Most little one providers attribute a frame involving tubular aluminum. A couple of models work with an metal stay regarding help, comparable to those utilized in internal-frame back packs, and might give a backpack selection.
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:'''"If you stand in a closed garage with a running car, you will die in a matter of minutes. Hundreds of thousands of cars in our cities create dirty, unhealthy air."'''<br />– ''Go By Bicycle''
  
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:'''"Terrorist organizations use our gas money. In order to protect political and corporate interests, the United States supports dictatorial regimes in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, which is the number one producer of oil in the world. 15 of the 19 September hijackers were Saudi. Iraq is the second largest producer of oil, and Kuwait the third. Do those countries sound familiar? The government supported Saddam through his worst atrocities, then Saddam began to disobey US orders. That is precisely when he became our enemy."'''<br />– ''Go by Bicycle''
  
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==Quotes for resistance==
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:'''"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]]''
  
Equipment: If you're planning on using a child provider hardly ever, you do not be thinking about full functionalities of the luxurious versions. Nonetheless, if you are planning to move off-road or have a great deal of items, consider models using the following accessories:
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:'''"Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of government, yield to it their allegiance and support are ... frequently the most serious obstacles to reform"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Henry David Thoreau|Henry David Thoreau]]''
  
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:'''"... to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Howard Zinn|Howard Zinn]]"
  
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:'''"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Howard Zinn|Howard Zinn]], 'Failure To Quit' ''
  
Gear-storage potential, such as completely removable nappy totes or day delivers
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:'''"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:John F. Kennedy|John F Kennedy]]''
  
A lot more adjustability options for a greater in shape
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:'''"Be the change you want to see in the world"'''<br />– ''[[Wikipedia:Mahatma Gandhi|Mahatma Gandhi]]''
 
 
Diaper-changing sleeping pad
 
 
 
Hydration-system compatibility
 
 
 
Removable rain/sun lid (at times distributed on their own)
 
 
 
Completely removable bug coming up (usually distributed individually)
 
 
 
In shape the kid Company for your requirements
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
First, alter the kid provider to suit an individual. This can be a main factor to your comfort and ease. When generating your current first alterations, use guides in order to bodyweight those as opposed to your child.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Change the particular suspensions method to match your torso, so the hipbelt rests in your hip your bones (certainly not your midsection) as well as the tie rest on your shoulders.
 
 
 
Tense up the actual hipbelt consequently approximately 80% in the bodyweight can be on the .
 
 
 
Make tighter the actual shoulder straps and so the child company is actually stable and also the staying 20% approximately in the weight is on your shoulder blades.
 
 
 
Alter the breast bone strap throughout your current chest muscles so that it won't hinder your own breathing.
 
 
 
In shape a child Provider for your Child
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Just before getting your kids inside carrier, alter the height of the little one couch. Guarantee the little one's connectors are usually loosened as well as the kickstand can be completely lengthy.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Right now placed your kids inside carrier, and make sure his or her foot come with the leg openings.
 
 
 
Buckle along with make tighter all shoulder straps, like the hipbelt, connectors, leg straps adjustments as well as breast bone band. Take note: Its not all child carriers have all of these band possibilities.
 
 
 
Tighten up the medial side compression connectors, if offered.
 
 
 
Check to make certain the newborn's tie suit efficiently more than her or his neck and that the leg band are comfy.
 
 
 
Recommendations on By using a Child Company
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Working out with a great busy kid provider is just like hoisting a heavy backpack (discover our pack-hoisting online video with regard to recommendations). The initial few occasions you do consequently, have someone enable you to don it the rear. The measures: Lift a child service provider with the best addresses, wear the actual shoulder straps as well as belt the hipbelt. When treatment of service provider, loosen the particular band and unbuckle the hipbelt. Getting the actual deal with guiding your face, bring the particular provider about for your top, along with understand the subsequent deal with to help you established the kid company on a lawn.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
A number of further tips:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Don't abandon your youngster unattended when he or she's in the child service provider.
 
 
 
Kids usually fall asleep inside child companies; sometimes look at the children's place and luxury.
 
 
 
Kid companies are not effectively steady to use as a chair, nor whenever they ever be put on improved materials say for example a table, desk as well as bed.
 
 
 
Don't use a child carrier when the frame or perhaps nails tend to be broken.
 
 
 
Be sure your youngster is protected from your weather.
 
 
 
Consider donning any head wear which means that your youngster can't pick up your hair
 

Latest revision as of 16:07, 27 September 2011

Home > Quotes

See also Slogans.

Quotes by WNBR participants, quotes to inspire riders etc...

Quotes from World Naked Bike Ride organizers and participants

"...inject the hearts of our neighbourhoods with the reality of our beautiful bodies which have developed over millions of years into their current perfect beingness. Join hundreds of naked compatriots in a free, non-sexual, fun bike ride."
Aurora, WNBR Chicago
"WNBR is the most exhilerating cycling experience since taking off your training wheels."
Daniel Johnson, WNBR Seattle
"Bikes and naked bodies harm nobody - car fumes and accidents kill tens of thousands every year in the UK alone and are driving us all to climate chaos. It is time more motorists stripped off their armour plating and moved around more gently on this earth."
- Duncan Blinkhorn, Brighton WNBR
"Be the unabashed vehicle of the revolution! Bare skin beats painted metal! The shame is on oil-dependency, not on us!"
- Daniel Johnson, WNBR Seattle
"The Auckland World Naked Bike Ride’s purpose was to draw attention to oil dependency and the negative social and environmental impacts of a car dominated culture. Last year 250 Aucklanders were killed by vehicle emissions, and 94 people died in car accidents on the roads of Auckland alone."
Simon Oosterman, WNBR Auckland (NZ) organizer, union worker and climate justice campaigner
"We ride bikes to protest oil dependency. We ride naked to symbolize cyclists' vulnerability on the road."
"When I ride, I feel like all the motor vehicles are giant hammers. I'm an egg. (...a hard boiled egg if I've got my helmet on - but still an egg!)."
"An aggressive cyclist can irritate and annoy drivers. An aggressive driver can injure or kill cyclists."
Jenn Farr, WNBR Ottawa
"Our message to the world is one of simplification, human harmony and love. For a future to exist for tomorrows generations, we have to stop wasting the life blood energy of the Earth, stop fighting and killing in the name of consumerist wealth accumulation and learn to love and respect all life on this planet."
Conrad Schmidt, founder of The Work Less Party and Artists for Peace and WNBR and organizer for WNBR Vancouver, BC
"Peacefully expose the vulnerability of cyclists, humanity and nature in the face of cars, aggression, consumerism and non-renewable energy."
As seen on a Newcastle flyer[1]
"World Naked Bike Ride exuberantly celebrates a future of human-powered transport and healthy, clean, green walkable cities with simple, grassroots naked bike rides all over the world. As the vessel of this revolution, we highlight the beauty, power and individuality of the naked human body with an aim of promoting body-positive values, self-awareness, simple healthy living and independence from consumerist, toxic, oil-dependent and car culture paradigms that are killing us."
Daniel Johnson, WNBR Seattle

Inspirational quotes

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Apple Computers, from 'Think Different' advertising campaign
“Everyone knew it was impossible, except for one idiot who went ahead and did it”
Marcel Pagnol, film maker, 1895-1974
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours"
Richard Bach, from Illusions
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
William Hutchinson Murray
"Don't just have a nice day, Create Yourself a Great Day!"
–Anonymous

Body-positive quotes

"Laws against public nudity stem from people's unease with the human body. It makes people uneasy that others are comfortable enough to be naked in public, when they are not."
Katie Mann, from article in Going Natural, Vol 17, No 2
"A child who has never been allowed to see his parents and brothers and sisters naked sees nudity as something shocking"
Dr Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt, 'Show Me' (New York: St Martin's Press, 1975)
"Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity"
Dr Lee Salk, psychiatrist
"The visual appearance of the human body is our human identity and we should not be forced to fear or hide our identity"
Vincent Bethell
"Everybody should run through the streets [naked] at least once. If you can do that, chances are you can have a lot of fun in other areas of your life."
Madonna, singer
"It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
Henry David Thoreau

Quotes for cycling

"Here we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil."
President George W Bush, State of the Union, 31 January 2006
"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race."
H G Wells
"On Earth the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another -- particularly when the place you arrived at has probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e., covered with tar, full of smoke, and short of fish." --
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"People are looking for places where they're not constantly being confronted with cars. It's just like non-smokers seeking smoke-free space."
Franziska Eichstaedt-Bohlig, German Green Party
"Watch any TV show, listen to any radio program, look through any magazine or newspaper and you will come across ads showing how cars will make you cool, sexy, popular, respected, at one with nature, safe, etc. The car and oil industries spend billions of dollars each year to promote a benign image of driving, but the function of all this is to assure profits and manipulate consumers, and nothing more."
Go By Bicycle
"If you see someone you know while riding, it's easy to stop and say hello. Bicycles create public space, enhance street life and build a sense of community"
Go By Bicycle
"If you stand in a closed garage with a running car, you will die in a matter of minutes. Hundreds of thousands of cars in our cities create dirty, unhealthy air."
Go By Bicycle
"Terrorist organizations use our gas money. In order to protect political and corporate interests, the United States supports dictatorial regimes in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, which is the number one producer of oil in the world. 15 of the 19 September hijackers were Saudi. Iraq is the second largest producer of oil, and Kuwait the third. Do those countries sound familiar? The government supported Saddam through his worst atrocities, then Saddam began to disobey US orders. That is precisely when he became our enemy."
Go by Bicycle

Quotes for resistance

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison"
Henry David Thoreau
"Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of government, yield to it their allegiance and support are ... frequently the most serious obstacles to reform"
Henry David Thoreau
"... to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
Howard Zinn"
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience... Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running and robbing the country. That's our problem."
Howard Zinn, 'Failure To Quit'
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth"
John F Kennedy
"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Mahatma Gandhi