Hear me, four quarters of the world-a relative I am! Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is! Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds.

Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions

Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.