99 Quotes by Chief Seattle

Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father leads his infant son, but he has forsaken his red children; he makes your people wax strong every day, and soon they will fill the land; while my people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide, that will never flow again. The white man's God cannot love his red children or he would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help.

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

All things are bound together. All things connect.

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame.

My words are like the stars that never change.

Contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?