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- 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…
- 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…
- 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 things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
- . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat…
- We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
- All things are bound together. All things connect.
- 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…
- 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 things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- 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…
- 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…
- This We Know. All Things Are Connected
- 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…
- What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide