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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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
all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
Chief Seattle
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
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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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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
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