"A humpback can transmit a sound across a……" — Rose George
"A humpback can transmit a sound across a whole ocean. But a supertanker can also be heard coming across a whole ocean, and because the noise that propellers make underwater is sometimes at the same frequency that whales use, then it can damage their acoustic habitat, and they need this for breeding, for finding feeding grounds, for finding mates."
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Rose George
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45 Quotes by Rose George
Rose George has 45 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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The first thing I did when I decided that I was going to dive into the world of poop was…
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I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against…
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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…
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Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have…
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There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need…
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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount…
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There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive…
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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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Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know…
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just…
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year.…
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
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Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of…
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit…
— Andy Gibb
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There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy…
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