99 Quotes by Chief Seattle

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.

Every door opened others. The records show some interesting encounters with a very complicated community on the ship with a complicated community ashore

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

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

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

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one’s family.

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