#chief seattle

[thecalminside]

The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.

-Chief Seattle

[entheognosis]

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

Chief Seattle (Si’ahl/Sealth) 1854

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.

Chief Seattle, in a letter to the U.S. Government, 1852

[apokrify]

“Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead - I say? There is no death. Only a change of worlds.”

[julesofnature]

"There is no death, only a change of worlds."  ~ Chief Seattle, 1786-1866

[kkdas]

All things share the same breath. And the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. -Chief Seattle

[coyotepoet]

Chief Seattle letter.. Please read.

(Written by a great Native American Chief, Chief Seattle. Few things had changed and if we don’t stop destroying the tropical forest and the forest, polluting our water and the air. Mother Nature will out-live men greed. Once a great chief stated about Ohio. Why do the white man hate nature. Do they want to destroy all things that are beautiful?) The President in Washington sends word that he…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Wintery New Mexico Mountain Scene. A picture of the Las Conchas trailhead near the Río Jémez, Sandoval Co, NM. Photo: Terrance Haanen (Jan 2024)

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"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."

~ Chief Seattle

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"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord."

~ Psalm 150:6

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"Love everything that breathes."

~ Gurdjieff

[double-dare-designs]

“We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

~Chief Seattle

[quotationadmiration]

Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.

Chief Seattle

[thecalminside]

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

-Chief Seattle

[entheognosis]

[branddmc]

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

- Chief Seattle

[kamala-laxman]

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

- Chief Seattle

[julesofnature]

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle (c. 1786 – June 7, 1866)

[ometochtli2rabbit]