Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
“Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.”
— Rose George · Container
The World Motivation
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
“Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.”
— Rose George · Container
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
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.
Along with all the other stunning statistics China can provide, it can also claim to be the world leader in making energy from human excrement. Biogas, as this energy is known, can be produced from the fermentation of any organic material, from wood to vegetables to human excreta.
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.
I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.