If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
PRINCE CHARLESSomething 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa – slightly off balance.
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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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We don’t, in a sensible world, want to hand on an increasingly dysfunctional world to our grandchildren.
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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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I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.
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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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To get the best results you must talk to your vegetables.
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Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.
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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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The demand for organic food is growing at a remarkable rate. Consumers have made it clear that they want organic produce and every sector of the food chain is responding, with the kind of results we have just seen.
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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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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Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.
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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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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 and ever.
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As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.
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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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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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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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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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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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Conservation must become before recreation.
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Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
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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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