Pristine Quotes - Page 2

• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Black And White, Views

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

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• I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Paris, Sao Paulo

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• Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Responsibility, Science

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• When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Oklahoma, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.

  Esha Gupta

  Baby, Beach, Water

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• Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches us that they fall because a large enough number of people organize a movement powerful enough to push them down. Rarely do such revolutions emerge in a neat and morally pristine process.

  Timothy B. Tyson

  Powerful, Fall, Order

  Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.317, Broadway Books

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• The sun, a red wheel, was sinking slowly in the west. Besides being spectacularly beautiful, the early-summer sunset was exceedingly soft and gentle: black mulberry leaves turned as red as roses; pristine white acacia petals shed an enshrouding pale-green aura. Mild evening breezes made both the mulberry leaves and the acacia petals dance and whirl, filling the woods with a soft rustle.

  Mo Yan

  Beautiful, Summer, Sunset

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• The Pleiadians said that at a certain moment in the future, when we go through our transformation, the Earth plane will shift back to its original pristine self.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Self, Earth, Transformation

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  Bette Midler

  Cities, People, Want

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• Just as the waves can subside to reveal the stillness of the ocean's depths, so too is it possible to calm the turbulence of our mind to reveal its natural pristine clarity.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Ocean, Mind, Depth

  Kathleen McDonald (2011). “How to Meditate: A Practical Guide: Second Edition (Large Print 16pt)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth's ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar.

  Brad Leithauser

  Air, Average, Long Ago

  "Reading Your Friends’ Novels" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 07, 2013.

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• The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

  Judith Schaechter

  Cutting, Glasses, Seductive

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• Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

  Louis Aragon

  Photography, Squares, Illustration

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• Some distance away is a white azalea bush which stuns me with its stately beauty. This is pristine natural beauty. it is irrepressible, seeks no reward, and is without goal, a beauty derived neither from symbolism nor metaphor and needing neither analogies nor associations.

  Gao Xingjian

  Distance, Symbolism, White

  "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1989.

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• If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life. And there's nothing in them that says hurt other people.

  Keith Ablow

  Jesus, Hurt, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Reality, Profound

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• Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Sex, Church, Want

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baby, Beach, Retirement

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

  Count of St. Germain

  Children, Real, Blessed

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• The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Museums, Broken, Church

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• I think it would be really hypocritical of me to make the films I make, where I delve into people's lives, to say that my life can't be looked at or that I have to be this pristine, isolated figure.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you live in a watershed area, in a pristine area, and you could watch this whole place fall apart in front of your eyes, you don't sell your soul for a buck.

  Josh Fox

  Fall, Eye, Soul

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

  Julia Kent

  Environment, Studios, Conventional

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his pipe and his crook, his nymph Echo, and his chosen daughter Iambe; for the great god Pan is not dead, as was rumored. No god ever dies. Perhaps of all the gods of New England and of ancient Greece, I am most constant at his shrine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Daughter, Echoes, Nymphs

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.256, e-artnow

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• But I will wear white - the whitest white! - purest most pristine white! - through the dark terrible days of winter - as no man of our time will ever dare.

  will.i.am

  Winter, Dark, Men

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