Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

This we know: the earth does not belong to man - man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one's family. All things are connected.

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?

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 them.