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.
PRINCE CHARLESThe less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Conservation must become before recreation.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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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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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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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.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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