All Chief Seattle Quotes
- When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land… Covered
- The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did… All
- Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints. Belong
- Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time… Common
- The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. Befalls
- We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children Ancestor
- Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench. Been
- Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! Conservation
- This We Know. All Things Are Connected All
- You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell… Ashes
- Take only memories, leave only footprints. Footprint
- All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers… All
- My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. Few
- Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that… Angry
- Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of… Better
- Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the… Approach
- Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Follows
- If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Air
- What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. All
- When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores… Alone