Wisdom for us and for the ages from a personal Superhero - Chief Seattle (1786-1866)...
Growing up in a Suquamish village along the Puget Sound, Seattle witnessed the arrival of the first white settlers in the Northwest. By the time he became Chief of his tribe, the early forays of trappers had given way to a steady stream of settlers. And so it fell to Chief Seattle to devise a strategy for dealing with these invaders. Rejecting violence and outright war with the settlers, this great Chief put his efforts and trust in peaceful dialogue. But as the intentions of the new arrivals became clear, his goal focused exclusively and simply on the survival of his people....and the rest is history.
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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.
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of 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 the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all....One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
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.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
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.
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
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