Judge not a fellow man by the number of noses he has on his face, but by the number of faces he has on his nose.

Like a man who has been dying for many days, a man in your city is numb to the stench.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

I want to tell you something, ... I'm Native American, and you calling me Chief, it turns my stomach. It'd be very similar to somebody calling you Nigger.

Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to the white man is an 'unbroken wilderness.'

But for us there was no wilderness, nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. Our faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

For us, the world was full of beauty; for the other, it was a place to be endured until he went to another world.

But we were wise. We knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.