All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.

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

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.