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Quotes About Untouched

So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched. But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival. You are not dead yet, it's not too late to open your depths by plunging into them and drink in the life that reveals itself quietly there.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
So many are alive who don't seem to care. Casual, easy, they move in the world as though untouched.   But you take pleasure in the faces of those who know they thirst. You cherish those who grip you for survival.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.
~ Daniel Mason
I go out on the side of a hill, maybe hunting deer, and sit there and see the shadow of night coming over the hill, and I can swear to you there is a part of me that is absolutely untouched by anything civilized. There's a part of me that has never heard of a telephone.
~ James Dickey
Mongolia was unbelievable. Great parts of it are completely untouched by modern development, but the roads, when you could even call them that, were terrible and we'd find ourselves on the wrong route without any warning.
~ Charley Boorman
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
~ Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.
~ H. W. L. Poonja
The soul who is most untouched is the most like to God.
~ Hadewijch
as some strings, untouched, sound when no one is speaking. So it was when love slipped inside us.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
~ Toni Collette
Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence, untouched by fallen hair or mold, silence that the Professor left behind as he wandered through the numbers, silence like a clear lake hidden in the depths of the forest.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking.
~ Gore Vidal
Don't hurt her!" I demanded, then shifted my expression to one I hoped looked lascivious enough. "I like untouched skin." Tom flushed. "Ah, we couldn't find a virgin.
~ Kim Harrison
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
~ Sam Trammell
Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are no major cities or resorts
~ Douglas E. Richards
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~ Anna
I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.
~ Gautama Buddha
All his life he had managed in such ways to disconnect himself from things which he couldn't escape and which threatened to define him in a way in which he didn't want to be defined, and go on untouched, untouched by things that should have touched him, hurt him, burned him.
~ Earl Lovelace
The most attractive feature of Alaska, I say, is its small, insignificant human population.
~ Edward Abbey
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
He had always disliked what he could easily have; he had a passion for the untouched.
~ Rumer Godden