Pristine Quotes
61 quotes by 57 authors
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff…
— Martha Beck
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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…
— Ruth Benedict
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I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had…
— Francis Collins
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Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and…
— Porphyry
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Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
— David R. Brower
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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert…
— Ian Gardner
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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…
— Eckhart Tolle
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I'm a total water-baby. I've seen some pristine beaches, from Greece to Goa.
— Esha Gupta
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The camera has a mind of its own--its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze--the camera's domain…
— Frank Lentricchia
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Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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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…
— Mo Yan
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We all used to collect baseball cards that came with bubble gum. You could never get the smell of gum off your cards, but you…
— Penny Marshall
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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…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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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…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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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…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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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…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it.…
— Jim Fergus
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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…
— Maya Angelou
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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…
— Matt Gonzalez
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To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is no sin or…
— Stuart Wilde
Who Wrote These Pristine Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 61 Pristine Quotes, led by these top contributors: