Seattle Quotes

• 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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  The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Travel, Men

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

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

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Son, Men

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

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• If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

  Chief Seattle

  Loneliness, Son, Animal

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• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Men, Air

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

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• 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.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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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.

  Chief Seattle

  Dream, Native American, Heart

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  There is no death, only a change of worlds.

  Chief Seattle

  Change, Sympathy, Native American

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

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

  Chief Seattle

  Blood, Web Of Life, Animal Rights

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

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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.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Moving, Night

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

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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.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspiring, Courage, Nature

  Chief Seattle, “This we know”

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• Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

  Chief Seattle

  Memories, Native American, Doe

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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.

  Chief Seattle

  Inspirational, Life, Native American

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• When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

  Chief Seattle

  Talking, Land, Wire

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• I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

  Nora Ephron

  Romantic, Hands, Movie Love

  "Fictional character: Sam Baldwin". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. June 25, 1993.

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• 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. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

  Chief Seattle

  Beautiful, Death, Country

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

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• 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.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

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

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• This We Know. All Things Are Connected

  Chief Seattle

  Wilderness, Connected, All Things

  Seattle (Chief), Susan Jeffers (1991). “Brother eagle, sister sky: a message from Chief Seattle”, Dial Books for Young Readers

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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.

  Chief Seattle

  Nature, Air, Land

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

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• Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

  Chief Seattle

  Memories, Footprint, Conservation

  "The Love Project Journey", www.imdb.com. 2010.

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

  Chief Seattle

  Men, Cities, Dying

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• I really enjoy doing theater, but doing theater in Seattle is like dropping a brick in a bottomless well. It's gratifying, but it's almost like doing radio. It's ephemeral.

  Dan Savage

  Ephemeral, Radio, Bricks

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

  Meredith Brooks

  Teeth, Cymbals, Sticks

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• And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

  Stephen Briggs

  Dutch, Example, Strange

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