Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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