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.

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

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.

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

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

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

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