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?
PRINCE CHARLESMy 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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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 was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Humility 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.
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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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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.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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