Rose George Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)
Rose George quotes and sayings page 6 (journalist). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 67 we have.
“Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.”
“Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer.”
“Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.”
“Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.”
“Sewage works that serve big cities run into trouble when the cities grow up around them.”
“There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.”
“Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for days every month (or every day for every month); women with the severe kind can have hardly any pain at all, like me.”
“In 2000, twice as much water was used throughout the world as in 1960. By 2050, half of the planet's projected 8.9 billion people will live in countries that are chronically short of water.”
“Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.”
“The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet to go to probably does his or her best to spend less. It is a human behavior that is as revealing as any other about human nature, but only if it can be released from the social straitjacket of nicety.”
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