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Prince Charles

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
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
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 CHARLES

Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
PRINCE CHARLES

Cheap Earth Food Price
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
PRINCE CHARLES

Learning Myself Parents
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Hands World
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
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLES

Discover End Value Yourself
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
PRINCE CHARLES

Best Farm Result Talk
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
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 CHARLES

Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
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

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past

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