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 CHARLESHumility 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.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth!
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It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
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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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All the time I feel I must justify my existence.
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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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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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Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
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Forests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
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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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I learned the way a monkey learns – by watching its parents.
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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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Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom.
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A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.
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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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