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Prince Charles

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
PRINCE CHARLES

Cheap Earth Food Price
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Climate Science Technology Trust World
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Difficult Economy Face Warm World
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Conflict Reason Terrorism
There 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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
PRINCE CHARLES

Expectation History Myself Relationship Serious Yourself
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Complete Man Teaching
Conservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conservation Recreation
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Clever Society Straight
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
PRINCE CHARLES

Dimension Evaporation Time World
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
PRINCE CHARLES

Best Farm Result Talk
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Food Myself Paid Price Production Way
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
PRINCE CHARLES

Big Challenge Change Climate Face Greatness
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Angel Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Bed Day Fashion Myself Position Rose
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 CHARLES

End Evidence Goodness Land Leaving People
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
PRINCE CHARLES

Eyes Father Myself
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
PRINCE CHARLES

Ability Believe God Passionate
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLES

Discover End Value Yourself

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