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.

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.

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.

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.

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.