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 CHARLESThere’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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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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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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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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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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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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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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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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It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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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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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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