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

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.

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

All things are connected, like the blood that runs in your family "The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father." 1854 The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. You must give to the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.

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

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.