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If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look. – Matthias Egger	Found on CNN 1 year ago
A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid. – The UN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Patagonia is a very special place but also very, very fragile, it's unique and very wild, and while it seems very distant and pristine, if we don't try to protect it, it will be like any other place full of pollution. – Kevin Zaouali	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It was incredible, they looked like they had never been touched since the day they were put in the album. They were pristine and looked like brand new photographs with so much color. The box was a bit tatty and covered in dust and dead spiders, so I wasn’t expecting much. – Will Stevenson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life. – Philipp Heck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It is impossible for Pebble to mitigate the devastation this mine will have on our Native cultures, our way of life that has been sustained for thousands of years by the pristine lands and waters of the Bristol Bay watershed. – Alannah Hurley	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We had spent weeks looking out at what looks so much like pristine white sea ice floating out on the ocean, when we look at it up close and we see that it's all very, very visibly contaminated when you look at it with the right tools — it felt a little bit like a punch in the gut. – Jacob Strock	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
They are concerning as they are occurring in a very remote part of the world, and in an environment that many people would consider to be pristine. – Mark Parrington	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The number and intensity of wildfires in the Arctic Circle is unusual and unprecedented, they are concerning as they are occurring in a very remote part of the world, and in an environment that many people would consider to be pristine. – Mark Parrington	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It is the lava tubes that are likely to hold the only pristine materials on the moon. – William Whittaker	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The federal government must respect and not infringe upon state's wishes and authority, we don't want South Carolina's pristine coastline to be turned into an industrial wasteland. – Chip Campsen	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Relationships sometimes break like a falling vase into fifty pieces. And when you glue the vase back together, you realize it has lost the luster and pristine appearance that will never return. Now you have two choices. Keep it as it is or throw it away. – RJ Intindola	added by RJ Intindola 5 years ago
You see this beautiful pristine photo of nature but then you look to the left and theres plastic Starbucks cups and water bottles on the trail and selfie sticks and people having road rage because some people were walking slower. – Stephen Kim	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The law is clear : if the federal government is shut down, The President National Parks must also be closed to protect public safety and pristine spaces. – Betty McCollum	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I mean they're basically talking about putting a 175-mile gash across this pristine habitat. – Drew Hamilton	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We already drilled and have taken some samples from the ocean floor but (only) from the top, (We want) to dig from the ocean floor to the deep pristine mantle. – Natsue Abe	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I think that major record of 63 will be broken today or tomorrow, i think there's a 61 or 62 out there because it's par 70, the greens are pristine – they're rolling beautifully – and they're soft. – New Jersey Phil Mickelson	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This rulemaking seeks to ensure that operators prepare for and conduct these operations in a manner that drives down risks and protects both offshore personnel and the pristine Arctic environment. – Brian Salerno	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
At their new home at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, the lions will enjoy large natural enclosures situated in pristine African bush, complete with drinking pools, platforms and toys. – Animal Defenders International	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This has been the saddest research trip of my life, almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope right up onto the top of the reef. We flew for 4000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in the most pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef and saw only four reefs that had no bleaching. The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998. – Terry Hughes	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Heavy elements weren't manufactured during the Big Bang, they were made later by stars, the first stars were made from completely pristine gas, and astronomers think they formed quite differently from stars today. – Neil Crighton	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There is an ongoing concern that ground-based astronomy is at risk long-term. There just are not that many pristine sites left, as these cities and highways grow, you start to wash out the faintest objects. The thing is, the faintest objects are the reason we're building these telescopes in the first place. – Patrick McCarthy	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We used to play the vinyl in those days, we didn't think, 'We'll keep it for 50 years and it will be in pristine condition.' Whoever gets it, it will have my fingerprints on it. – Ringo Starr	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Most objects that we know of interact with the planets in some way so the orbits have been disturbed over the past few billion years, whereas this object is so distant that it may not have been disturbed by planets. So its orbit is a pristine orbit from the formation of the original solar system. If we can get its orbit and understand how it formed and how it got there, it will tell us a lot about the formation of our solar system. – Scott Sheppard	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

– Matthias Egger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A massive spill from the Safer would destroy pristine reefs, coastal mangroves and other sea life across the Red Sea, expose millions of people to highly polluted air, and cut off food, fuel and other life-saving supplies to Yemen, where 17 million people already need food aid.

– The UN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Patagonia is a very special place but also very, very fragile, it's unique and very wild, and while it seems very distant and pristine, if we don't try to protect it, it will be like any other place full of pollution.

– Kevin Zaouali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It was incredible, they looked like they had never been touched since the day they were put in the album. They were pristine and looked like brand new photographs with so much color. The box was a bit tatty and covered in dust and dead spiders, so I wasn’t expecting much.

– Will Stevenson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This meteorite is special because it fell onto a frozen lake and was recovered quickly. It was very pristine. We could see the minerals weren't much altered and later found that it contained a rich inventory of extraterrestrial organic compounds, these kinds of organic compounds were likely delivered to the early Earth by meteorites and might have contributed to the ingredients of life.

– Philipp Heck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It is impossible for Pebble to mitigate the devastation this mine will have on our Native cultures, our way of life that has been sustained for thousands of years by the pristine lands and waters of the Bristol Bay watershed.

– Alannah Hurley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We had spent weeks looking out at what looks so much like pristine white sea ice floating out on the ocean, when we look at it up close and we see that it's all very, very visibly contaminated when you look at it with the right tools — it felt a little bit like a punch in the gut.

– Jacob Strock

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They are concerning as they are occurring in a very remote part of the world, and in an environment that many people would consider to be pristine.

– Mark Parrington

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The number and intensity of wildfires in the Arctic Circle is unusual and unprecedented, they are concerning as they are occurring in a very remote part of the world, and in an environment that many people would consider to be pristine.

– Mark Parrington

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It is the lava tubes that are likely to hold the only pristine materials on the moon.

– William Whittaker

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The federal government must respect and not infringe upon state's wishes and authority, we don't want South Carolina's pristine coastline to be turned into an industrial wasteland.

– Chip Campsen

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Relationships sometimes break like a falling vase into fifty pieces. And when you glue the vase back together, you realize it has lost the luster and pristine appearance that will never return. Now you have two choices. Keep it as it is or throw it away.

– RJ Intindola

added by RJ Intindola
5 years ago

You see this beautiful pristine photo of nature but then you look to the left and theres plastic Starbucks cups and water bottles on the trail and selfie sticks and people having road rage because some people were walking slower.

– Stephen Kim

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The law is clear : if the federal government is shut down, The President National Parks must also be closed to protect public safety and pristine spaces.

– Betty McCollum

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I mean they're basically talking about putting a 175-mile gash across this pristine habitat.

– Drew Hamilton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We already drilled and have taken some samples from the ocean floor but (only) from the top, (We want) to dig from the ocean floor to the deep pristine mantle.

– Natsue Abe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think that major record of 63 will be broken today or tomorrow, i think there's a 61 or 62 out there because it's par 70, the greens are pristine – they're rolling beautifully – and they're soft.

– New Jersey Phil Mickelson

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This rulemaking seeks to ensure that operators prepare for and conduct these operations in a manner that drives down risks and protects both offshore personnel and the pristine Arctic environment.

– Brian Salerno

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

At their new home at Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, the lions will enjoy large natural enclosures situated in pristine African bush, complete with drinking pools, platforms and toys.

– Animal Defenders International

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This has been the saddest research trip of my life, almost without exception, every reef we flew across showed consistently high levels of bleaching, from the reef slope right up onto the top of the reef. We flew for 4000 kilometers (2,485 miles) in the most pristine parts of the Great Barrier Reef and saw only four reefs that had no bleaching. The severity is much greater than in earlier bleaching events in 2002 or 1998.

– Terry Hughes

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Heavy elements weren't manufactured during the Big Bang, they were made later by stars, the first stars were made from completely pristine gas, and astronomers think they formed quite differently from stars today.

– Neil Crighton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There is an ongoing concern that ground-based astronomy is at risk long-term. There just are not that many pristine sites left, as these cities and highways grow, you start to wash out the faintest objects. The thing is, the faintest objects are the reason we're building these telescopes in the first place.

– Patrick McCarthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We used to play the vinyl in those days, we didn't think, 'We'll keep it for 50 years and it will be in pristine condition.' Whoever gets it, it will have my fingerprints on it.

– Ringo Starr

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Most objects that we know of interact with the planets in some way so the orbits have been disturbed over the past few billion years, whereas this object is so distant that it may not have been disturbed by planets. So its orbit is a pristine orbit from the formation of the original solar system. If we can get its orbit and understand how it formed and how it got there, it will tell us a lot about the formation of our solar system.

– Scott Sheppard

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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