Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Chief SeattleThe earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. 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.
Chief SeattleWe are part of the earth and it is part of us ... What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
Chief SeattleWe 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.
Chief Seattle