Prince Charles Quotes

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.

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.

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

I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.

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.

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.

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.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Forests ... are in fact the world's air-conditioning system-the very lungs of the planet-and help to store the largest body of freshwater on the planet ... essential to produce food for our planet's growing population. The rainforests of the world also provide the livelihoods of more than a billion of the poorest people on this Earth... In simple terms, the rainforests, which encircle the world, are our very life-support system-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.