My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory.

Chief Seattle

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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


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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


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Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

Chief Seattle

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We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

Chief Seattle


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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.

Chief Seattle


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