99 Quotes by Chief Seattle

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

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

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.