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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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.Chief Seattle
all things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
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Every door opened others. The records show some interesting encounters with a very complicated community on the ship with a complicated community ashore
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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.
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