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.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

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.

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

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