Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
PRINCE CHARLESConservation must become before recreation.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don’t want them – if I’m still alive by then – to say, ‘Why didn’t you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
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Why can’t we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles – and functional?
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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All I’m saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end environmentally and everywhere else for the food that is produced in a particular way.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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