Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLESWhy 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?
More Prince Charles Quotes
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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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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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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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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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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.
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