A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
PRINCE CHARLESI 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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