Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle
Chief Seattlewas a Dkhw'Duw'Abshchief. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal relationship with "Doc" Maynard. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him. A widely publicized speech arguing in favor of ecological responsibility and respect of Native Americans' land rights had been attributed to him. However, what he actually said has been lost through translation and rewriting...
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life lonely nature
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.
rivers tree lasts
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
mother children son
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: 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. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
change sympathy native-american
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
land agriculture earth
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
web-of-life creation
All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.
talking land wire
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
web-of-life earth harm
To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
military land sky
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.
earth beautiful-earth
We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.
travel memories adventure
Take only memories, leave only footprints.
rely-upon return sun
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.
loneliness men gone
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit
father voice water
The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.