"Do you know that trees talk? Well, they do. They talk to each other, and they'll talk to you if you listen....
I have learned a lot from trees: Sometimes about the weather, Sometimes about animals, Sometimes
about the Great Spirit."
~Walking Buffalo, Canadian Stoney Indian~
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit on the ground they spit on themselves. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
~Chief Seattle~
"A few more passing suns will see us here no more, and our dust
and bones will mingle with these same prairies. I see, as in a vision,
the dying spark of our council fires, the ashes cold and white. I see no
longer the curling smoke rising from our lodge poles. I hear no longer
the songs of the women as they prepare the meal. The antelope have gone;
the buffalo wallows are empty. Only the wail of the coyote is heard. The
white man's medicine is stronger than ours; his iron horse rushes over
the buffalo trail. We are like birds with a broken wing.My heart is cold
within me. My eyes are growing dim - I am old..."
~Chief Plenty-Coups, Crow~
The Lakota was wise.
He knew that man's heart
away from nature
becomes hard.
~Standing Bear
We can only be...
what we give ourselves...
the power to be.
~A Cherokee Feast of Days
Better to live in peace...
than to begin a war and lie dead.
~Chief Joseph (Nez Perces)
The music playing is from the Last of the Mohicans
