Famous Quotes / Chief Seattle
11 Quotations by Chief Seattle
- 1. How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own ...
- 2. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does ...
- 3. Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he do ...
- 4. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
- 5. The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dea ...
- 6. There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
- 7. There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in sprin ...
- 8. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t ...
- 9. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness o ...
- 10. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the son of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is me ...
- 11. You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. S ...