Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
PRINCE CHARLESOnly 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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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.
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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.
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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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.
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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 did that.
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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.
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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.
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It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
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I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
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Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
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Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth.
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One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it’s spawned, is climate change and drought.
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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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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.
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If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
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I sometimes wonder if two thirds of the globe is covered in red carpet.
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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.
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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 team standing shoulder to shoulder between you and the Mona Lisa.
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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 is produced in a particular way.
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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.
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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.
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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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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.
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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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
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This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
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