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Prince Charles

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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Hands World
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
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
PRINCE CHARLES

Learning Myself Parents
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Approval Design Development Feeling Home
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
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
PRINCE CHARLES

Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
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
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
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
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Beautiful Hands Occasion Ourselves Special
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
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
PRINCE CHARLES

Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness

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