We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to… — Chief Seattle 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
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse,… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth… — Chief Seattle 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
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 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 all. Man… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
