A 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 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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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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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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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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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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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