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 CHARLESI believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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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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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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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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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