All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
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.
This we know, the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. So hold in your mind the memory on the land as it is when you take it. And, with all your strength, with all your mind, and with all your heart...
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.
Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
All creation is one. What we do to one, we do to the entire web of life.
We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.