Birth: November 14, 1948
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something..
Grandparenthood is a unique moment in anyone's life, as countless kind people have told me in recent months, so I am enormously proud and happy to be….
Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom..
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach..
To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables..
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We ….
All the time I feel I must justify my existence..
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?.
Conservation must become before recreation..
Be neither too remote nor too familiar..
There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstr….
We should be treating, I think, the whole issue of climate change and global warming with a far greater degree of priority than I think is happening ….
. . . 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….
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 for ever and ever….
I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability..
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, u….
It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide g….
We don't, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren..
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 t….
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them..
If you think about your and my grandchildren, this is what really worries me. I don't want them - if I'm still alive by then - to say, 'Why didn't yo….