Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth. Prince Charles More Quotes by Prince Charles More Quotes From Prince Charles Some recent occurrences such as the BSE disaster and even perhaps - dare I mention it - the present severe weather conditions in our country are, I have no doubt, the consequences of mankind's arrogant disregard of the delicate balance of nature. We have to find a way of ensuring that our remarkable and seemingly beneficial advances in technology do not just become the agents of our own destruction. Prince Charles technology weather country 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 doctors becoming drug 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. Prince Charles generosity imagination thinking I 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. Prince Charles environmental inspirational thinking I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them. Prince Charles determination power littles 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 Charles three tree country 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 Prince Charles future vision moving The world's forests need to be seen for what they are - giant global utilities, providing essential public services to humanity on a vast scale. They store carbon, which is lost to the atmosphere when they burn, increasing global warming. The life they support cleans the atmosphere of pollutants and feeds it with moisture. They act as a natural thermostat, helping to regulate our climate and sustain the lives of 1.4 billion of the poorest people on this Earth. Prince Charles support life people When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people. Prince Charles christian numbers people I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability. Prince Charles ability given believe I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility. Prince Charles responsibility ideas thinking 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 history people The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth! Prince Charles cheap-food earth Be neither too remote nor too familiar. Prince Charles familiar 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 impact science past If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them. Prince Charles discovering chuck ends Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy. Prince Charles faces today world 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. Prince Charles disaster morality men If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. Prince Charles angel heaven book We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren. Prince Charles future grandchildren hands