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.
PRINCE CHARLESHumility 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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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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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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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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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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