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• My beautiful, my own
  My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze
  Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
  Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
  And cool them into calmness!

  Lord Byron

  Beautiful, Sea Breeze, Wind

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1411, Delphi Classics

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• The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Apples, Decay, Cider

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Native American, Kids, Usa

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• Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Vegetables, Roots, Different

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.56, Editorial MAXTOR

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• The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.

  Ishmael Reed

  Past, Europe, America

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.

  George Stigler

  Native Language, People, Citizens

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• When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's, or at least with historical, eyes; you pause on the first bridge, where an ordinary walk hardly commences, and begin to observe and moralize like a traveler. It is worth the while to see your native village thus sometimes, as if you were a traveler passing through it, commenting on your neighbors as strangers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Eye, Home

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

  Jack Kerouac

  Home, Writing, Native Language

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• A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Wind, People

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• To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Native American, Light, Space

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.85, University of Missouri Press

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• The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Passion, Native American, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Eye, Men

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Horse, Crazy, Native American

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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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, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Memories

  "Flow: For Love of Water". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Taken, Native American, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.412

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• I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Spirit, Knows

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

  Sitting Bull

  Im Sorry, Native American, I Am Sorry

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• You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

  Sitting Bull

  Stupid, Native American, Thinking

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• I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.

  Duane Chapman

  Brother, Native American, Blood

  "Bounty Hunter Duane 'Dog' Chapman to Wed", www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2006.

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• I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated, do you get - let the sharks eat you? How do you die?

  Duane Chapman

  Christian, Native American, Sharks

  "Exclusive Interview With Duane 'Dog' Chapman". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes, www.foxnews.com. November 6, 2007.

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• There is no place in this world warmer than our native land.

  Khem Veasna

  Land, World, This World

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• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To make revolution in Korea we must know Korean history and geography as well as the customs of the Korean people. Only then is it possible to educate our people in a way that suits them and to inspire in them an ardent love for their native place and their motherland.

  Kim Il-sung

  Korea, People, Inspire

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• The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a marked difference to the Jews of Europe and America. They possess the same physical characteristics - the dark, oblong eye, the prominent nose, the strongly-marked cheek and jaw - but in the latter, these traits have become harsh and coarse.

  Bayard Taylor

  Eye, Dark, Differences

  Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.64, The Floating Press

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• Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

  Winona LaDuke

  Cutting, Paper, Toilets

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