Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, half of all smog from sulfur dioxide comes in from ships. — Rose George Angeles Copy Share Image
There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live. — Rose George Carrying Copy Share Image
In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and… — Rose George 19th century Copy Share Image
In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9… — Rose George Billion Copy Share Image
“Each year, a shipping publicist told me, 'More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is… — Rose George Copy Share Image
“If the cultural standing of excrement doesn't convince them, I say that the material itself is as rich as oil and probably… — Rose George Long ago Copy Share Image
Most modern Indians don't stick to their caste jobs any more. There is more inter-caste marriage, more fluidity, more freedom than ever… — Rose George Animals Copy Share Image
When Peru had a cholera outbreak in 1991, losses from tourism and agricultural revenue were three times greater than the total money… — Rose George Agricultural Copy Share Image
We see the sea as this place of leisure and this place, you know, a blue patch on the map to fly… — Rose George Anymore Copy Share Image
In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out… — Rose George Ashore Copy Share Image
A toilet can put a girl back in school. Twenty-five percent of girls in India drop out of school because they have… — Rose George Hygiene Copy Share Image
I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the… — Rose George Am Copy Share Image
I think about what's going down my sink. So I won't pour oil down my sink. I won't - if I'm cleaning… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door.… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. — Rose George Container Copy Share Image
Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value.… — Rose George Chinese Copy Share Image
Shipping is the greenest method of transport. In terms of carbon emissions per ton per mile, it emits about a thousandth of… — Rose George About Copy Share Image
“The 1.8 million child deaths each year related to clean water and sanitation dwarf the casualities associated with violent conflict. No act… — rose george Children Copy Share Image
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality… — Rose George Across Copy Share Image
Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them. — Rose George Around Copy Share Image
“the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.” — Rose George Space Copy Share Image
Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be… — Rose George Back Copy Share Image
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and… — Rose George Dinosaurs Copy Share Image
In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can… — Rose George Above Copy Share Image
