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 CHARLESTo 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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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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 you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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