We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that and relate the way they should be, future is pretty dim for the human species.

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down very carefully - because there are generations coming one after the other. If you think in these terms, then you'll walk a lot more carefully, be more respectful of this earth.

The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.