Mother Earth Native American Quotes

#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. 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.

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

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#5. Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.

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#9. 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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#10. 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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#11. We travel only as far and as high as our hearts will take us.

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#12. 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

#13. 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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#14. 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)

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#15. 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

#16. 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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