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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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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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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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Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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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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To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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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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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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