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.
PRINCE CHARLESTo get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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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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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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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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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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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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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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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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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