Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

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

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

Boy, the things I do for England.

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.

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.

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.

Conservation must become before recreation.

The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!

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

I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

All the time I feel I must justify my existence.

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.

There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.

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

Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.