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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children
Chief Seattle
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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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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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All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.
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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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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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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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There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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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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To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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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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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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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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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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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
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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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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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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
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