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.
PRINCE CHARLESForests are the world’s air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.
More Prince Charles Quotes
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There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
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Any difficulties which the world faces today will be as nothing compared to the full effects which global warming will have on the world-wide economy.
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Your greatest achievement is to love me.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can’t reach.
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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 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.
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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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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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