But he is hopeful that the once pristine phonescape can be reclaimed.

The surrounding pine forests have suffered from excessive logging in recent years, significantly damaging their once pristine quality.

Dead invaders lay strewn across the once pristine lawn.

Every article fit him to perfection, from his snug black trousers to his once pristine white shirt.

This once pristine hammock has been reduced to three small fragments totaling less than 20 ha (50 acres).

This has left many once pristine coral reefs exposed on the newly formed beaches.

The once pristine white walls were splattered with blood and gray matter.

The once pristine streams became polluted, the water undrinkable.

Migrating ozone has meant problems even for isolated and once pristine areas.

But there has, alas, been selective cutting and quarrying in what was once pristine.