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Great Quotes by Chief Seattle
- 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:…
- . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat…
- Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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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