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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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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.
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Take only memories, leave only footprints.
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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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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
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The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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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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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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To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
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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.
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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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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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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
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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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