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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.

Prince Charles

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
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Learning Myself Parents
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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Children Clever Society Straight
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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Eyes Father Myself
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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Climate Science Technology Trust World
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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Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
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
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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Difficult Economy Face Warm World
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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Approval Design Development Feeling Home
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
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 price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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Cheap Earth Food Price
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
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
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
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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Average Knowledge Position
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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Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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.
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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.
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Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
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.
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Beautiful Hands Occasion Ourselves Special

I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.

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