Pristine Quotes

• Open your eyes! The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

  Paul Claudel

  Eye, World, Firsts

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• So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the factories that were polluting, and to see all the deposits of garbage. But, in the end, I thought the only way to give us an incentive, to bring hope, is to show the pictures of the pristine planet - to see the innocence.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Ideas, Giving

  "In the beginning" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

  Ruth Benedict

  Eye, Men, Thinking

  Ruth Benedict (1973). “Patterns of Culture”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your own nature is pure, spotless, and pristine. Through association we drag ourselves down or we can raise ourselves up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Association, Purity

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• A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Past, Men, Space

  "Restore Hetch Hetchy Valley, Vote Yes! on Proposition F" by Matt Gonzalez, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 5, 2012.

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• Even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment is what I live for.

  Travis Rice

  Environment, Shots

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on the big mounds from the plows, and all the cars are filthy, but the fields are dazzling and untouched and pristine.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Winter, White

  "Drifting" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Islam, Desire, Doe

  "Exclusive Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan Pt. 2". Final Call interview, www.finalcall.com. January 27, 2004.

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• We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Beauty, Energy, Molecules

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• It's not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild nature fades.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Understanding, Wilderness, Disappear

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• A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

  Moby

  Involved, Listeners

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• All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.

  Mitch Albom

  Children, Parent, Damage

  Mitch Albom (2009). “The Five People You Meet In Heaven”, p.64, Hachette UK

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• Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body...are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Clouds, Crucible

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• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

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• Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

  Dorothy Parker

  Shoes, Dresses, Hats

  Dorothy Parker, “Autobiography”

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• Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights. It follows that any assault on Jewish life - on Jews or Judaism or the Jewish state - must be cast in the language of human rights.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Taken, Rights, Holocaust

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

  William Shakespeare

  Echoes, Doctors, Land

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers (1859). “The Works of William Shakespeare, Complete: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens”, p.280

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

  David Riesman

  Zest, Energy, Groups

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.179, Transaction Publishers

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• We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mind, Events, Attention

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Fun, Simple

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• I'm passionate about capturing amazing snowboarding action. I get so much out of the artistic endeavor of even getting one amazing shot in a pristine environment, using specialist cameras to showcase how fun and dynamic snowboarding is. That's what I live for.

  Travis Rice

  Fun, Snowboarding, Cameras

  Source: www.snowmagazine.com

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• There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no­­­-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God?

  Maya Angelou

  Mother, Children, Husband

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• Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Issues, Focus

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• While endangering one of the most pristine areas in the world, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would do nothing to make our country more energy independent.

  Tom Daschle

  Country, Independent, Wildlife

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