About Quote by Rose George

I went down to the sewers in London and looked at a campaigning group in London called RATS, Rowers Against Thames Sewage, and I…

— Rose George

The Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS), which controls the living environment on shuttles and on the International Space Station, doesn't have the…

— Rose George

Diarrhoea is the reason you can have a malnourished child in a well-fed family.

— Rose George

“Mr. Wang had found my interest in fen, the Mandarin word for excrement, peculiar. Nonetheless, he tried to be helpful. He would point out…

— Rose George

Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.

— Rose George

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a…

— Rose George

Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.

— 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…

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The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers…

— Rose George

Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization:…

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Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by…

— Rose George

My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social…

— Rose George