Quotes from Chief Seattle

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

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, Duwamish

My words are like the stars that never change.

At night when the streets of your towns and cities are quiet, and you think them empty, they will throng with the spirits that once thronged them, and still love those places. The white man will never be alone. So let him be just and deal kindly with my people. The dead have power too.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

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

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.