"The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution."

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There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.

— Richard Henry Dana, Jr.