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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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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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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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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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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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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
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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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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
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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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Take only memories, leave only footprints.
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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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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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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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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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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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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, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
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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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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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