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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

Prince Charles

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

Authority Easy People Power
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
PRINCE CHARLES

Eyes Father Myself
We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Hands World
Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
PRINCE CHARLES

Forest Nature Planet System
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 you do something about it?’, when you could have done.
PRINCE CHARLES

Grandchildren Thinking Worry Yourself
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 Doubt God Heaven Service Talk
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

Change Climate Goodness Myself Start Thinking
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Children Clever Society Straight
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

Action Best Destruction Enthusiasm Ourselves Past
There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES

Goodness People Start
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.
PRINCE CHARLES

Conclusion Failure Human Ideal Jump Quick Suffering
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 Curious People Survive
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

Alive Economy Element Myself Project Rains Tree Worth
Humility is to make a right estimate of one’s self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
PRINCE CHARLES

Himself Humility Measurement Puzzle Right Thinking
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
PRINCE CHARLES

Balance Celebration Impose Medicine
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 now.
PRINCE CHARLES

Change Climate Global Issues Myself Thinking Treat

Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

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