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Rose George has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide…
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The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
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In the early 19th century, they tried selling soap as healthy. No one bought it. They tried selling it as sexy, and…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was look at…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage,…
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A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean,…
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Shipping is so cheap that it makes more financial sense for Scottish cod to be sent 10,000 miles to China to be…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the…
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The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.
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The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
— Dave Barry
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I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
— Mayim Bialik
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I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
— Nicolas Cage
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I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.
— Tori Amos
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the guillotine recalling…
— Alistair Cooke
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We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too…
— Pierce Brosnan
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Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you.
— Herman Melville
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If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
— William Jennings Bryan
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I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,…
— Lewis Thomas
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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for…
— Mark Twain
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To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of…
— Kelly Osbourne
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Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small…
— William Carlos Williams
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