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Own 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?
- The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
- 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…
- Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
- 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…
- Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
- 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…
- If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
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