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Quotes About Pristine

Any group that intends to sell laboratory meat will need to build bioreactors - factories that can grow cells under pristine conditions. Bioreactors aren't new; beer and yeast are made using similar methods.
~ Michael Specter
I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.
~ Adam Garcia
The sitting President of the United States was a soulless imbecile who hated the outdoors, but in Angie's view, at this point Teddy Roosevelt himself couldn't turn the tide if he came back from the dead. All the treasured wilderness that had been sacrificed at the altar of growth was gone for all time. More disappeared every day; nothing ever changed except the speed of destruction, and only because there were fewer pristine pieces to sell off, carve up and pave.
~ Carl Hiaasen
If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box—no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they'd still be pristine white.
~ KT Tunstall
The library at Madingley Grange was rarely used. The pristine books in their diamond-paned cases seemed never to have been sullied by anything so coarse as the perusal of the human eye.
~ Caroline Graham
Space, like time, gives birth to forgetfulness, but does so by removing an individual from all relationships and placing him in a free and pristine state--indeed, in but a moment it can turn a pedant and philistine into something like a vagabond. Time, they say, is water from the river Lethe, but alien air is a similar drink; and if its effects are less profound, it works all the more quickly.
~ Thomas Mann
She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They had the sad, untouched air of literature paraded for display purposes but never actually used. It was profoundly depressing.
~ Genevieve Cogman
She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They had the sad, untouched air of literature paraded for display purposes but never actually used. It was profoundly depressing. Wyndham's
~ Genevieve Cogman
He has not a single redeeming defect.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Peacekeepers, in pristine white uniforms, march on the cleanly swept cobblestones. Along the rooftops, more of them occupy nests of machine guns.
~ Suzanne Collins
The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.
~ Toni Morrison
When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my shame floundered about for refuge. The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love. It was a small step to Shirley Temple. I learned much later to worship her, just as I learned to delight in cleanliness, knowing, even as I learned, that the change was adjustment without improvement.
~ Toni Morrison
When I learned how repulsive this disinterested violence was, that it was repulsive because it was disinterested, my floundered about for refuge. The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.
~ Toni Morrison
Spick and span new.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
When I wake up in the morning, do I think I'm a role model? Yes. I'm not trying to have a pristine image, because a real role model shows you to the good and ugly.
~ KRS-One
to preserve the memory of that very first morning as, in its pristine state, unwrinkled by projection, one preserves the negative of a film.
~ Gilbert Adair
Let man heal the hurt places and revere whatever is still miraculously pristine.
~ David R. Brower
You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.
~ Graham Taylor
I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.
~ Arundhati Roy
I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a religious experience when you go to a place like the Amazon, and there's no civilisation for thousands of miles.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Within sight of Seattle and Vancouver are flanks of the earth that have yet to feel a human footprint.
~ Timothy Egan
Yamacraw is beautiful because man has not yet had time to destroy this beauty.
~ Pat Conroy
Today, reishi stands out as one the most valuable of all polypore mushrooms in nature for the benefit of our health. Many naturopaths and doctors prefer organically-grown reishi from pristine environments because they are more pure.
~ Paul Stamets