Native American Nature Sayings

#1. For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Luther Standing Bear

#2. When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

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#3. 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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#4. The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen
he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

Susanna Moodie

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

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#6. 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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#7. There is no real aloneness. There is solitude and the nurturing silence that is relationship with ourselves, but even then we are part of something larger.

Linda Hogan

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

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#10. Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#11. 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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#12. The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. It's not about Indians, it's about people... the overall philosophy is to reconnect all people to nature and inevitably themselves. - Larry Stillday

Michael Meuers

#14. Nature is not dumb. Humanity is dumb when we can't hear or when we forget how to communicate with nature. Nature is very much alive. Intelligent living beings and vibrant energies are all over the planet.

Sun Bear

#15. 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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#16. The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.

Alice Walker

#17. I can tell you categorically that any mal-treatment of any detainees by U.S. forces or coalition forces is totally unacceptable - that our orders have and will continue to be that we will treat everyone in our charge with - humanely and with respect.

Peter Pace

#18. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

Luther Standing Bear

#19. I was invited for the first Woodstock. Actually, I started the programme.

Ravi Shankar

#20. 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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#21. 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

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

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#23. A lot of us have scars ... the biggest difference between you and the rest of us is you haven't learned to live with yours yet.

Anne Bishop

#24. To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#25. Tell me, Chase. Tell me what I think I already know. Tell me what you're feeling. I feel it too, I do.' My slaughtered heart stitches back together, more solid than ever. 'I love you,' I whisper. 'I love you so fucking much.

S.R. Grey

#26. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!

Helen Hunt Jackson

#27. As for me, I have a choice between honoring that dark life I've seen so many years moving in the junipers, or of walking away and going on with my own human busyness. There is always that choice for humans.

Linda Hogan

#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. The reality is that every time we manipulate nature's rhythms, we create unintended consequences that then require us to make still further changes."

~ Glenn Aparicio Parry

Glenn Aparicio Parry

#30. We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

Pat Paulsen

#31. Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

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#32. 'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Greg Rucka

#33. He swept his hand, indicating me from head to toe. "It's like you just broke your seal and slipped out of your plastic wrap".
"Why does everything you say sound obscene?"
"You look like a doll that's never been played with. That's all I'm saying. I can't help it if you have a dirty mind

Kat Falls

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

Linda Hogan