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.
PRINCE CHARLESThere’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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My Rainforests Project has three main elements. Firstly, to determine how much funding the rainforest countries need to re-orientate their economies so that the trees are worth more alive than dead.
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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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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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.
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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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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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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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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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