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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

Topics: All Things Bound Connect Humankind Life Ourselves Things Thread Together Web Whatever Within Woven

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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

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Topics: Follows Like Nation Nature Order Regret Sea Tribe Useless Waves

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All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

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Topics: Air All Things Beast Breath Life Man Same Share Shares Spirit Supports Things Tree

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What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

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Topics: Beast Beasts Die Gone Great Loneliness Man Spirit Were Without Would

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When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. 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

Topics: Alone Among Become Dead Deal Earth Him His Invisible Just Kindly Last Man Memory Men Myth Never People Perished Powerless Red Shall Shores Tribe White Will

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If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

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Topics: Air Buy Freshness How Own Sparkle Them Water You

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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.

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Topics: Ancestors Dreams Given Great Great Spirit Hearts Hours Men Night Old Old Men Our Our People People Religion Solemn Spirit Them Traditions Visions Written

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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.

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Topics: Does He Himself Life Man Merely Strand Weave Web Whatever

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Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

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Topics: Earth Humans Land Merely Only Own Protect Share

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Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.

~Chief Seattle

Topics: Angry Been Black Cruel Ever Faces Grow Hearts Imaginary Impulsive Men Often Old Old Men Old Women Our Paint Real Relentless Restrain Some Them Thus Unable Women Women Are Wrong Young Young Men Youth

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Type: Leader

Born: Unknown

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