We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLESWe don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLESIt 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
PRINCE CHARLESSomething 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.
PRINCE CHARLESIf 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 CHARLESConservation must become before recreation.
PRINCE CHARLESI believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
PRINCE CHARLESI learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
PRINCE CHARLESYou 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.
PRINCE CHARLESI 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.
PRINCE CHARLESIf you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLESI 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 CHARLESI sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLESA 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 CHARLESIt 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.
PRINCE CHARLESThere’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLESAll the time I feel I must justify my existence.
PRINCE CHARLES