Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Chief Seattle
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Chief Seattle
Age: 80 †
Born: 1786
Born: January 1
Died: 1866
Died: June 7
Slaveholder
Tribal Chief
Evergreen State
Si'ahl
Sealth
Seathl
See-ahth
Chief Si'ahl
Chief Sealth
Chief Seathl
Chief See-ahth
Seattle
si?al
Chief si?al
Noah
Chief Noah
Dream
Dreams
Seattle
Great
Vision
Visions
Heart
Written
Ancestors
Men
Hours
Traditions
People
Religion
Solemn
Given
Ancestor
Spirit
Hearts
Night
Tradition
More quotes by Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
Chief Seattle
Earth does not belong to us we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
Chief Seattle
. . . 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.
Chief Seattle
Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
Chief Seattle
All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.
Chief Seattle
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
Chief Seattle
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.
Chief Seattle
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle
