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 CHARLESMy 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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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