He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Our land is everything to us… I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember that… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk Copy Share Image
We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit. — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“As a culture,” Pollan writes, “we seem to have arrived at a place where whatever native wisdom we may once have possessed… — Michael Ruhlman Copy Share Image
The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars.… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know… — Canasatego Copy Share Image
Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place.… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,… — Chief Dan George Copy Share Image
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle. The sky is round, and I have heard that the… — John Neihardt Copy Share Image
My young men shall never work, men who work cannot dream; and wisdom comes to us in dreams. You ask me to… — Smohalla Copy Share Image
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the… — William Commanda Copy Share Image
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace…Treat all men alike. Give them… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Suppose a white man should come to me and say, "Joseph, I like your horses. I want to buy them." I say… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard. — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
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