John Burnside

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

Scottish Writer

Phillip Noyce

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

Australian Director

Mark Kurlansky

Commercial fishing is always so behind the curve of technology that they were building ships with wooden hulls and masts in the 1940s, though it also had a diesel engine, which probably was used most of the time.

American Journalist

Henry David Thoreau

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

American Author

William Bligh

The ship was masted according to the proportion of the navy; but on my application the masts were shortened, as I thought them too much for her, considering the nature of the voyage.

British Soldier

Jose Andres

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Spanish Chef

Van Heflin

I spent six years before the mast on all types of merchant ships, and naturally I feel well qualified for seafaring roles.

Peter S. Beagle

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.

Used in a sailing context to describe the structure on a ship.

Nautical Term

Refers to a key component of the ship that aids in control and propulsion.

Part of Rigging

Mast as a symbol can evoke images of adventure and exploration.

Visual Imagery

It's a structure designed to hold devices for communication signals.

Signal Support

Involves the building or setting up of tall structures, specifically for antennas.

Erecting Structures

The term mast as food source often relates to autumn when these seeds fall.

Autumn Harvest

Mast is an important food for some animals in the wild.

Food for Wildlife

The amount of mast can vary each year, affecting wildlife populations.

Plentiful or Scarce

 they are stripping vegetation on masts and I haven't been too destructive I suppose on trees just yet but I suppose it's coming as we get into more wooded areas will start to see that's the same destruction that Sydney was pointing out just now but rarely been a beautiful sighting of these Ailey's and there must

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 takes all hands to hoist to the unwieldy canvas up to the top of the teepee get our stick put in handled right in there and push that all the way up to the top okay sinks heavy they work the canvas up the poles like a sail is raised on the mast of a boat push that to the top okay yeah

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 but that technology development is a huge part of our exploration and our ability to access the stories and the discoveries on other worlds so this is in the lab testing that that chemcam instrument that fires its laser out of that location in the mast all of this

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 to try to be the fastest person ever to sail solo nonstop around the world. Now for this, I needed a different bigger, wider, faster, more powerful. Just to give that boat some scale, I could climb inside her mast all the way to the top.

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 stay with me -- so that you can't hear the song, and then I'm going to have you tie me to the mast so that I can listen and we can all sail by unaffected." So this is a captain putting the life of every single person on the ship at risk

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 boisterous manner this elephant wonder if he isn't in a bit of mast obviously we can't see now because he's completely wet so we can't see if he's sweating from his possibly in must I'm not sure as I said we can't tell now because he's

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 daunting we literally have to set up another state trooper post temporarily for this event this year troopers beefed up their presence by adding a mobile command center with satellite service and a mast camera to aid in monitoring

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 He invented the ship's sail and mast, which gave humans control over the wind. With every creation, Daedalus challenged human limitations that had so far kept mortals separate from gods, until finally, he broke right through.

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 bow maybe someone up the mast just spying for icebergs the extreme winds and colds here a huge deterrents for human life but the ACC actually creates the perfect conditions for wildlife

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 Do you know that we have 1.4 million cellular radio masts deployed worldwide?

Mast

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Part of Rigging

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