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.

The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival.

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

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man ... cannot be exempt from the common destiny.

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