Chief Seattle Quotes - Page 2

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• Take only memories, leave only footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Travel, Memories

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• 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.

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  Nature, Air, Land

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

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  Dream, Native American, Heart

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• 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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  Inspirational, Life, Native American

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• Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

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  Men, Cities, Dying

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• Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

  Chief Seattle

  Land, Agriculture, Earth

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Courage, Nature

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

  Chief Seattle

  Children, Native American, Web Of Life

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?

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  Lonely, Nature, Night

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• 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 are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.

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  Running, Brother, Kindness

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• There is no such place as away.

  Chief Seattle

  Earth Day, Earth

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

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  Native American, Web Of Life, Earth Day

  Seattle (Chief) (1980). “How can one sell the air?: the manifesto of an Indian chief”, Book Publishing Company (TN)

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• 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.

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  Brother, Moving, Night

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

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  Mother, Son, Men

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• 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 change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, People, World

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press

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• Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father leads his infant son, but he has forsaken his red children; he makes your people wax strong every day, and soon they will fill the land; while my people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide, that will never flow again. The white man's God cannot love his red children or he would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help.

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  Strong, Children, Father

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.62, University of Washington Press

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• How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

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  Military, Land, Sky

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• . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

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  Brother, Horse, Equality

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• Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

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  Regret, Destiny, Men

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• Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

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  Regret, Native American, Order

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• All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

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  Blood, Web Of Life, Animal Rights

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

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  Earth, Beautiful Earth

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• My words are like the stars that never change.

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  Stars, Never Change

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.12, University of Washington Press

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• We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

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  Native American, Air, Water

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• To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

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  Ashes, Sacred, Native American Indian

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