Brother Quotes by Chief Seattle

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.

— Chief Seattle

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

— Chief Seattle

Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father…

— Chief Seattle

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for…

— Chief Seattle

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He…

— Chief Seattle

“The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.”

— Chief Seattle

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land,…

— Chief Seattle

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

— Chief Seattle

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man…

— Chief Seattle

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

— Chief Seattle

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

— Chief Seattle

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

— Chief Seattle

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the…

— Chief Seattle

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

— Chief Seattle

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

— Chief Seattle