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 CHARLESAs technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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Something as curious as the monarchy won’t survive unless you take account of people’s attitudes. After all, if people don’t want it, they won’t have it.
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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I find myself born into this particular position. I’m determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.
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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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