If you say to me: “Master, it would seem that you weren’t too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries,” I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
I just come and talk to the plants, really—very important to talk to them, they respond I find.
—Charles, Prince Of Wales (b. 1948)