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Native American Quotes by Chief Seattle
- We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
- Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
- 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…
- 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…
- Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
- The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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.
- There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
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