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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.
Chief Seattle
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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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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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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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Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
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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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