Earth Native American Quotes

#1. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

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#2. The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

Chief Joseph

#3. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

Chief Seattle

#4. Man's obsession with his own wants is taking him further from those without whom happiness cannot be found. It is taking him from his people.

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#5. Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

#6. What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Massasoit

#7. We need to cherish Father Sky and honor Mother Earth.Every THING has a purpose. Every ONE has worth. (Short story entitled THE PUZZLE, found in a book, Foxleaf Anthology, collection of works from authors in the Upper Cumberland, TN)

KoKo Nervelli

#8. Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease and herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.

Mourning Dove

#9. I have learned that the point of life's walk is not where or how far I move my feet but how I am moved in my heart.

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#10. I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#11. We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.

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#12. According to Native American legends, dogs with different-colored eyes could see both heaven and earth.

James Rollins

#13. There is much to be learned from the world around us - far more than we normally comprehend. The Ancient Ones knew this well - most particularly the wise teachers among them - those who, in the Navajo tongue, were called "Anasazi.

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#14. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.

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#15. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

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#16. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.

Crazy Horse

#17. We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now ... but it will grow again ... like the trees.

Chief Joseph

#18. Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

#19. What a strange alchemy we have worked, turning earth around to destroy itself, using earth's own elements to wound it.

Linda Hogan

#20. Whether we walk among our people or alone among the hills, happiness in life's walking depends on how we feel about others in our hearts.

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#21. Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

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#22. The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours ...

Black Elk

#23. I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.

Red Cloud

#24. To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

William Least Heat-Moon

#25. Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.

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#26. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.

Sitting Bull

#27. At the end of our lives, when our bodies are about to be laid in Mother Earth, we will know for ourselves whether we are a Two-Legged being full of light or a Two-Legged being full of darkness.

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#28. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.

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#29. One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Crazy Horse

#30. The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.

Stewart Udall