There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLESAny 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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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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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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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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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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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.
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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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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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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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