nibot | Huxley on Swedes

Of the Swedes, Aldous Huxley (of Brave New World fame) wrote in his book Along The Road: Notes and Essay of a Tourist:

``And as for Scandinavia -- it is well known that there is no part of the world, excluding the tropics, where people so freely divest themselves of their clothing. The Swedish passion for nature is so strong that it can only be adequately expressed when in a state of nature. `As souls unbodied,' says Donne, `bodies unclothed must be to taste whole joys.' Noble, nude and far more modern than any other people in Europe, they sport in the icy waters of the Baltic, they roam naked in the primeval forest.''

Huxley on Swedes

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