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