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

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

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

We are a part of the earth and it is part of us.

My words are like the stars that never change.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children