We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? Chief Seattle More Quotes by Chief Seattle More Quotes From Chief Seattle Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves... Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. Chief Seattle What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. Chief Seattle diegreatmanloneliness When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Chief Seattle alonemanmenpeople Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better. Chief Seattle revengehomemenwar My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. Chief Seattle resembletreesfewpeople Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. Chief Seattle daymantogethermorning Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Chief Seattle angrywomenblackmen Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them. Chief Seattle mangodlovepeople
