As human beings we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions; to judge people too quickly and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration of the actual facts and ideals of the period.
PRINCE CHARLESI was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I think we’re going to find, with climate change and everything else, things like global warming and goodness knows what else and the cost of fuel for a start, that things are going to become very complicated.
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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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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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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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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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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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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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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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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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To 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.
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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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