99 Quotes by Chief Seattle

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better.

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.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

There is no such place as away.

Man belongs to the Earth, Earth does not belong to man

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.