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 CHARLESThere is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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