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.
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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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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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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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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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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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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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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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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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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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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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