Memorable Native American Quotes About Animals

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"We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our humanity is one."
Luther Standing Bear
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites."
Alice Walker
"The eagle is sacred. He represents honesty, truth, majesty, strength, courage, wisdom, power and freedom."
Anonymous Navajo
"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."
Native American Proverb
"When a man moves away from nature his heart becomes hard."
Luther Standing Bear
"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
Ancient Indian Proverb
"Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it."
Native American Proverb
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"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man. The air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
Chief Seattle
"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."
Chief Seattle
"The Great Spirit is in all things: he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us; that which we put into the ground she returns to us."
Big Thunder (Bedagi)
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
Crowfoot
"We are as much alive as we keep the earth alive."
Chief Dan George
"Earth is our mother. In spite of our abuse of her, mother earth continues to sustain us."
Native American Proverb
"Look at me. I am a symbol of the sun here on earth, look at me."
Anonymous Navajo
"We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests for those who can't speak for themselves such as the birds, animals, fish and trees."
Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody)
"Alright! Now I’m sure that the sun is shining! I can see clearly that the buzzards are eating the dead buffalo. The time of the Long Knives has come!"
Sitting Bull
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."
Black Elk
"Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun."
Chief Seattle
"Each bird is precious to us, because each bird flies for us."
Tom Porter
"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."
Native American Proverb
"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized, we didn't have any kind of prison. Therefore, we were not incarcerating people. We had no lockups, and therefore could not become key keepers."
John (Fire) Lame Deer
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"When the Earth is sick, the animals will disappear, When that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them."
Chief Seattle
"If we don't do what's right, the earth and the animals will go away, and we will disappear also."
Native American saying
"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth."
Chief Seattle
"We are part of the earth and it is part of us."
Chief Seattle

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