Chief Seattle famous quotes

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
-- Chief Seattle

#Change #Native American #Psychics

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

#Native American #Men #Air

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.
-- Chief Seattle

#Life #Lonely #Nature

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
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#Memories #Footprint #Conservation

This We Know. All Things Are Connected
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#Connected

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
-- Chief Seattle

#Mother #Respect #Children

Take only memories, leave only footprints.
-- Chief Seattle

#Travel #Memories #Footprint

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.
-- Chief Seattle

#Children #Earth #Climate Change

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.
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#Brother #Horse #Flower

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
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#Motivational #Wisdom #Peace

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
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#Memories #Doe #Earth

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
-- Chief Seattle

#Loneliness #Son #Animal

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

#Inspiring #Courage #Nature

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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#Life #Travel #Men

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then
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#Talking #Land #Wire

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
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#Inspirational #Life #Native American

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
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#Land #Agriculture #Earth

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
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#Blood #Connected

There is no such place as away.
-- Chief Seattle

#Earth Day #Earth

My words are like the stars that never change.
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#Stars #Never Change

. . . 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

#Brother #Horse #Men

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
-- Chief Seattle

#Night #Bed #Waste

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

#Nature #Air #Land

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man
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#Men #Doe #Earth

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
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#Earth

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
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#Son #Earth

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 shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.The perfumed flowers are our sisters, 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 the man, all belong to the same family.
-- Chief Seattle

#Brother #Horse #Memories

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.
-- Chief Seattle

#Native American #Heart #Earth

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
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#Native American #Bed #Might

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
-- Chief Seattle

#Ashes #Sacred #Ancestor

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
-- Chief Seattle

#Return #Sun #Chiefs

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
-- Chief Seattle

#Regret #Destiny #Men

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
-- Chief Seattle

#Mother #Son #Men

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
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#Men #Cities #Dying

All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.
-- Chief Seattle

#Running #Brother #Children

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.
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#Military #Land #Sky

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
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#Regret #Native American #Order

The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.
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#Rain #Native American #Men

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.
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#Native American #People #World

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
-- Chief Seattle

#Native American #People #Earth

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
-- Chief Seattle

#Native American #Air #Water

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
-- Chief Seattle

#Father #Voice #Water

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?
-- Chief Seattle

#God #Dream #Greatness

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?
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#God #Brother #Men

Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.
-- Chief Seattle

#God #Land #People

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

#God #Strong #Father

What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
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#Lonely #Nature #Night

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

#Dream #Heart #Night

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.
-- Chief Seattle

#Spring #Men #Cities

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

#Brother #Moving #Night

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

#Brother #Decay #May

All things are bound together. All things connect.
-- Chief Seattle

#Together

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
-- Chief Seattle

#Earth #Harm #Contempt

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

#Beautiful #Mother #Country