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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

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
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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Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
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
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening now.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
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
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
PRINCE CHARLES

Born Brother Ourselves Religion Sister
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.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
PRINCE CHARLES

Existence Feeling Myself Time
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
Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conservation Recreation
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
PRINCE CHARLES

Beautiful Hands Occasion Ourselves Special

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.

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