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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.

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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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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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Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.
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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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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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Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.
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The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
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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.
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Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
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We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family.
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Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
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I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.
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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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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
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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.
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