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.

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

There is no such place as away.

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.

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

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