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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.

Prince Charles

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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Build Offend Ourselves Replacement Yourself
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
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 CHARLES

Architect Curve Design Expression Feeling
As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
PRINCE CHARLES

Advance Architecture Art Creation Technology
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Attitude Curious People Survive
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
PRINCE CHARLES

Authority Easy People Power
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Average Build Frustration Office Remember Yourself
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
Your greatest achievement is to love me.
PRINCE CHARLES

Achievement Love Myself Pride Relationship
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
PRINCE CHARLES

Learning Myself Parents

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