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.
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.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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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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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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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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.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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