One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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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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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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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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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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Something 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.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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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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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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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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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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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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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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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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