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Chief Seattle
Chief Seattle
Leader
Born: 1786
Died: 1866
Great Life Man Old Own People
Related authors: Buddha Dalai Lama Jesus Christ Julius Caesar Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther Martin Luther King, Jr. Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Life Together Whatever Ourselves All Things Thread Woven Web Bound Within Connect Things Humankind
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
Loneliness Great Man Beast Gone Would Spirit Beasts Without Were Die
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
Life Man Beast Breath Tree Air All Things Spirit Share Shares Supports Same Things
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle
Life Man Whatever Weave Web He Merely Himself Does Strand
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
Alone Man Memory People Will Men Myth Become White Earth Tribe Kindly Shall Never Red Invisible Powerless Dead Him Perished Deal His Shores Just Among Last
If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Chief Seattle
Buy You Water Own Air How Freshness Them Sparkle
Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. Chief Seattle
Own Earth Only Share Merely Protect Land Humans
Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Chief Seattle
Nature Regret Nation Waves Tribe Follows Like Order Sea Useless
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
Angry Youth Women Old Black Men Young Our Relentless Unable Some Restrain Faces Cruel Wrong Thus Real Been Women Are Hearts Often Impulsive Young Men Them Old Men Old Women Paint Grow Ever Imaginary
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
War Home Revenge Better Old Men Lose Own Young Considered Stay Stay-At-Home Cost Sons Know Mothers Times Gain Young Men Old Men Who Even Lives
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. Chief Seattle
Resting Our Ancestors Resting Place Sacred Hallowed Place Ashes Us Ground
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
Day Morning Man Together Before White Approach Sun Day And Night Red Mist Dwell Cannot Ever Night
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
Love God Man People Will White Our Our People Rapidly Would Never He Like Protect Tide Return Cannot Them Away Receding

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