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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
— Chief Seattle
There is no such place as away.
— Chief Seattle
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
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
— Chief Seattle
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
— Chief Seattle
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?
— Chief Seattle
This We Know. All Things Are Connected
— Chief Seattle
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
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
— Chief Seattle
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.
— Chief Seattle
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
— Chief Seattle
My words are like the stars that never change.
— Chief Seattle
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?
— Chief Seattle
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
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
— Chief Seattle
Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man
— Chief Seattle
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
— Chief Seattle
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
— Chief Seattle
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
— Chief Seattle
We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
— Chief Seattle
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
Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. - Chief Seattle Suqwamish and Duwamish T
— Kent Nerburn
Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.
— Chief Seattle
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.
— Chief Seattle
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
— Chief Seattle
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
— Chief Seattle
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
— Chief Seattle
The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.
— Chief Seattle
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
— 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.
— Chief Seattle
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?
— Chief Seattle
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
— Chief Seattle