All Chief Seattle Quotes
- How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival. Beginning
- We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? Air
- Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Earth
- Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only… Change
- The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a… Air
- Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Follow
- The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste. Bed
- Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of… Earth
- How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the… Air
- We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle:… All
- All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth. All
- There is no such place as away. Earth
- . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat… All
- Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. Bed
- How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the… Air
- Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man Belong
- We are a part of the earth and it is part of us. Earth
- We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. All
- My words are like the stars that never change. Change
- To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. Contempt
- Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Agriculture
- The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth,… Among
- All things are bound together. All things connect. All
- I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been… Accepting
- We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he… America