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.
PRINCE CHARLESWhy 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?
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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.
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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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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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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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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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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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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don’t crush them with some clever remark straight away.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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.
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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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