There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLESSomething 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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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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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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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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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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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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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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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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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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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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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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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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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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