Chief Seattle Quotes (13 Quotes)


    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.

    Every door opened others. The records show some interesting encounters with a very complicated community on the ship with a complicated community ashore

    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.

    The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.

    ... 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.


    all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

    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.

    Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

    What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

    There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

    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.

    All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

    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.


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