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

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

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.

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

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

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