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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 17 quotes by Chief Seattle Chief Seattle (an Anglicization of the modern Duwamish conventional spelling Si'ahl, equivalent to the modern Lushootseed publishing spelling siʔaɫ, Lushootseed pronunciation: [ˈsiʔaːɬ], originally [ˈsiʔaːƛ ]; c. 1786 – June 7, 1866) was a Dkhw’Duw’Absh (Duwamish) chief, also known as Sealth, Seathle, Seathl, or See-ahth. A prominent figure among his people, he pursued a path of accommodation to white settlers, forming a personal... Read full biography of Chief Seattle → 1 2 Ctrl → What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. 0 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... → 0 All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it. 0 There is no death, only a change of worlds. 0 Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the... → 0 If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? 0 My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. 0 Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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