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1. "If all the beasts were gone,men would diefrom a great loneliness of spirit,for whatever happens to the beastsalso happens to the man.All things are connected.Whatever befalls the Earthbefalls the sons of the Earth." ~ Chief Seattle
2. "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
3. "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
4. "Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench." ~ Chief Seattle
5. "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
6. "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
7. "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
8. "There is no death, only a change of worlds." ~ Chief Seattle
9. "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
10. "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
11. "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
12. "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
13. "To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground." ~ Chief Seattle
14. "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
15. "My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain." ~ Chief Seattle
16. "Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless." ~ Chief Seattle
17. "Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it." ~ Chief Seattle
18. "If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?" ~ Chief Seattle
19. "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
20. "Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints." ~ Chief Seattle
21. "This We Know. All Things Are Connected" ~ Chief Seattle
22. "The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves." ~ Chief Seattle

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A question in your nerves is litYet you know there is no answer fitTo satisfy, insure you not to quitTo keep it in your mind and not forgetThat it is not he or she or them or it that you belong to..."
Author: Bob Dylan

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