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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors we borrow it from our children

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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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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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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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All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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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.
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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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We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
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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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