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 CHARLESThe less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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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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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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There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
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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.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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