Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Chief Seattle spoke and the truth prevails.


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 1786-1866


If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Chief Seattle 1786-1866


Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle 1786-1866


Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money. Chief Seattle 1786-1866


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. Chief Seattle 1786-1866

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