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Prince Charles

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
PRINCE CHARLES

Capital Economics Evidence Important
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
PRINCE CHARLES

Born Brother Ourselves Religion Sister
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
PRINCE CHARLES

Best Farm Result Talk
The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
PRINCE CHARLES

Cheap Earth Food Price
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
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
PRINCE CHARLES

Creation Earth Society Success
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
PRINCE CHARLES

Ability Believe God Passionate
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?
PRINCE CHARLES

Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
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
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 CHARLES

Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLES

Authority Easy People Power
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
PRINCE CHARLES

Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Dependent Easy Ourselves Scare Sick
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Complete Man Teaching
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
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Food Myself Paid Price Production Way
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conservation Recreation
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 CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
PRINCE CHARLES

Dimension Evaporation Time World
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
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

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