99 Quotes by Chief Seattle

We are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.

The air is precious to the red man, for all things share the same breath-the beast, the tree, the man, they all share the same breath. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.

The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful Earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the Earth and it is part of us.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.

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