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Prince Charles

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
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
A jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they induce – like a basketball team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
PRINCE CHARLES

Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
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
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
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
PRINCE CHARLES

Complete Man Teaching
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
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
PRINCE CHARLES

Capital Economics Evidence Important
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
PRINCE CHARLES

Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conservation Recreation
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
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

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