Oren Lyons famous quotes

04-17-2025

I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.
-- Oren Lyons

#Native American #Eagles #Mountain
The law says if you poison the water, youâ€™ll die. The law says that if you poison the air, youâ€™ll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, youâ€™ll suffer... If you donâ€™t learn that, you can only suffer. Thereâ€™s no discussion with this law.
-- Oren Lyons

#Law #Air #Water
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.
-- Oren Lyons

#Environmental #Generations #Today
All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.
-- Oren Lyons

#God #Children #Together
If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.
-- Oren Lyons

#Moral
The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.
-- Oren Lyons

#Environment
In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
-- Oren Lyons

#Sacred #Absence
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.
-- Oren Lyons

#Rivers #Diversity #Different
When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up atÂ us from beneath the ground. we never forget them.
-- Oren Lyons

#Mother #Feet #Earth
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.
-- Oren Lyons

#Eagles #Four #Forget
Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.
-- Oren Lyons

#Long #Goes On #Stories
What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives
-- Oren Lyons

#People #Natural #Resources
Times change but principles don't. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same. And that's what you have to keep intact. It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart.
-- Oren Lyons

#Heart #Land #Culture
Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.
-- Oren Lyons

#Jobs #Responsibility #Men
We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down very carefully - because there are generations coming one after the other. If you think in these terms, then you'll walk a lot more carefully, be more respectful of this earth.
-- Oren Lyons

#Thinking #Feet #Earth
When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.
-- Oren Lyons

#Sports #Football #Team
* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.
-- Oren Lyons

#Courage #Needs #Too Late
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.
-- Oren Lyons

#Children #Rivers #Greed
We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and relate the way they should be, the future is pretty dim for the human species.
-- Oren Lyons

#People #Earth #Way
What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate. There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.
-- Oren Lyons

#Mean #People #What If
We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.
-- Oren Lyons

#Law #Two #Being Thankful
Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.
-- Oren Lyons

#Life #Spiritual #Heart
There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.
-- Oren Lyons

#Fall #Two #Blood
When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)
-- Oren Lyons

#Games #Lacrosse #Six
We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.
-- Oren Lyons

#Spiritual #Law

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