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> [Perhaps it has been too uncomfortable for those with vested interests to acknowledge, but 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/perhaps-it-has-been-too-uncomfortable-for-those-with-vested-interests/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e6/prince-charles-4903_acknowledge_perhaps-it-has-been-too-uncomfortable-fo_694211.jpg)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/we-have-spent-the-best-part-of-the-past-century-enthusiastically/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

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## More by Prince Charles

> [I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/i-believe-passionately-that-everyone-has-a-particular-god-given/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/fast-food-may-appear-to-be-cheap-food-and-in-the-literal-sense-it/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [While the demand for organic food outstrips supply, we happen to know that 77 percent of consumers don't want genetically engineered crops grown in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/while-the-demand-for-organic-food-outstrips-supply-we-happen-to-know/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [. . . a jostling scrum of office buildings so mediocre that the only way you ever remember them is by the frustration they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/a-jostling-scrum-of-office-buildings-so-mediocre-that-the-only-way/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/forests-are-in-fact-the-world-s-air-conditioning-system-the-very/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [The whole of the 20th century has always put the car at the center. So by putting the pedestrian first, you create these livable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/the-whole-of-the-20th-century-has-always-put-the-car-at-the-center-so/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [I'm not very good at being a performing monkey.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/i-m-not-very-good-at-being-a-performing-monkey/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [On an increasingly crowded planet, humanity faces many threats - but none is greater than climate change. It magnifies every hazard and tension of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/on-an-increasingly-crowded-planet-humanity-faces-many-threats-but/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of learning flourished. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/the-medieval-islamic-world-from-central-asia-to-the-shores-of-the/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [Business is recognizing the role it can play in combatting climate change. Thank God, is all I can say, for there is a desperately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/business-is-recognizing-the-role-it-can-play-in-combatting-climate/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [Conservation must become before recreation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/conservation-must-become-before-recreation/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/i-think-we-d-be-very-foolish-to-expect-that-we-can-just-import/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/there-are-now-more-tv-s-in-british-households-than-there-are-people/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [All I'm saying is that there is a price to be paid at the sharp end.. environmentally and everywhere else.. for the food that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/all-i-m-saying-is-that-there-is-a-price-to-be-paid-at-the-sharp-end/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

> [There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/prince-charles/there-s-nothing-like-a-jolly-good-disaster-to-get-people-to-start/)

[Prince Charles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/prince-charles/)

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