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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.

Prince Charles

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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Age Deep Generosity Greatness Myself Recover Thinking
All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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Existence Feeling Myself Time
I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Learning Myself Parents
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.
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Appearance Calculation Cheap Food Myself
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
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
PRINCE CHARLES

Ability Believe God Passionate
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Children Hands World
It 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
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Capital Economics Evidence Important
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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Goodness People Start
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 whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
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
Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
PRINCE CHARLES

Creation Earth Society Success
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
PRINCE CHARLES

Beautiful Hands Occasion Ourselves Special
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
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
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.
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Age Consider Doubt Live Necessary Terrify
The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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Consumer Demand Kind Organic Remark Result
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
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
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
I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
PRINCE CHARLES

Cover Globe Myself Time
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
I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
PRINCE CHARLES

Dimension Evaporation Time World
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 CHARLES

Approval Design Development Feeling Home
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
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Dependent Easy Ourselves Scare Sick

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