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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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Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
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To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
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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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Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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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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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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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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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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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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. . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.
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Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
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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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When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
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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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What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
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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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Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
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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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