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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.

Prince Charles

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.
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Expectation Fools Imagination Myself
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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Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
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
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.
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Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
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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Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness
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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Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
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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Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Authority Easy People Power
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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Cover Globe Myself Time
Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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Achievement Love Myself Pride Relationship
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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Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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Average Knowledge Position
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
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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Build Offend Ourselves Replacement Yourself
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
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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Forest Nature Planet System
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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Dependent Easy Ourselves Scare Sick
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
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Goodness People Start
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
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Children Hands World
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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Food Myself Paid Price Production Way
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.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
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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Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.
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Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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Activity Paint Reach Soul Transportation

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