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We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
PRINCE CHARLES

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLES

Discover End Value Yourself
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
PRINCE CHARLES

Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness
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?
PRINCE CHARLES

Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
PRINCE CHARLES

Climate Science Technology Trust World
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
PRINCE CHARLES

Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Clever Society Straight
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Food Myself Paid Price Production Way
Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
PRINCE CHARLES

Difficult Economy Face Warm World
Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
PRINCE CHARLES

Forest Nature Planet System
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
PRINCE CHARLES

Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conservation Recreation

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