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Chief Seattle Quotes
«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 your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«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.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«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 are bound together. All things connect.»
Author: 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 freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.»
Author: Chief Seattle
«all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.»
Author: Chief Seattle