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 CHARLESForests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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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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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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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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.
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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
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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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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