161 Quotes by Prince Charles

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    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.

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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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    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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    If you think about the impact of climate change, it should be how a doctor would deal with the problem. A scientific hypothesis is tested to absolute destruction, but medicine can't wait. If a doctor sees a child with a fever, he can't wait for endless tests. He has to act on what is there. The risk of delay is so enormous that we can't wait until we are absolutely sure the patient is dying.

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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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    We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.

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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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    The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution – moving from hunter-gathering to farming – and the Industrial Revolution.

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