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Prince Charles

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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Climate Science Technology Trust World
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
PRINCE CHARLES

Activity Paint Reach Soul Transportation
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
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Dimension Evaporation Time World
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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End Evidence Goodness Land Leaving People
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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Attitude Curious People Survive
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Better Born Determination Help Hope Myself Position
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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Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
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.
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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
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 CHARLES

Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
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
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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Capital Economics Evidence Important
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
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
PRINCE CHARLES

Best Farm Result Talk
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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Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth

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