Chief Seattle Quotes

All things are connected.

The Earth does not belong to man: man belongs to the Earth.

Please take care of this land, or living will become survival.

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.

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.

environment universalism

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