All Chief Seattle Quotes
- 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
- There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an… Cities
- Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the… Ancestor
- Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and… Arms
- Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all… All
- The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How… Brother
- How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? Awaken
- What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool… Argument
- Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.… All
- All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Air
- Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Courage
- There is no death, only a change of worlds. Change
- To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. Ancestor
- Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or… Certainty
- When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them. Animal
- If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the… All