To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

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.

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.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the 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. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

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