Chief Seattle Quotes & Sayings

17 most famous Chief Seattle quotes and sayings (leader). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”

“What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.”

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

“Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”

“Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.”

“All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.”

“Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been.”

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

“Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.”