You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the 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.

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

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

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

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

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