"As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned watchers of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," ...or.., "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them."

---- U Thant (Burmese)

"(Plants should be regarded as) jewels.... in the devalued currency of our world environment."

---- Uberto Tosco

"We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits..... wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry."

---- G. M. Trevelyan

"Those who wander..., may not be lost."

---- Unknown

"Man has responsibility.., not power."

---- Tuscarora Saying

"Those who have one foot in the canoe.... and one foot in the boat..., are going to fall into the river."

---- Tuscarora Saying

"They are not dead.., who live in the hearts, they leave behind."

---- Tuscarora Saying

"The way of the troublemaker is thorny."

---- Umpqua Saying

"A man must make his own arrows."

---- Winnebago Saying

"When you die..., you will be spoken of as those in the sky.., like the stars."

---- Yurok Saying

"After dark.., all cats are leopards."

---- Zuni Saying

..."The linkage of ages has taught us to think of the linkages to many things...
Mind, body, spirit... are linked together... You cannot consider one, without the others...
The HIgher Powers.., the medicine person.. and the community.. ..,are linked together..
People.., other creatures... and the rest of creation.., are linked together..
Thinking in dimensions like these, keeps us from being narrow and self-centered..
Instead..., it stretches and expands the mind.."....

---- Fools Crow

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"Wakan-Tanka...., I thank you for our ancestors.....
....For the life they have given each of us....
.....and for the traditions they preserved and handed down to us...

Wakan-Tanka...., I thank you for my life...
...and the opportunity it has given me to know you...., to serve you... and to serve our people...
Continue to make me a responsible person....
....and help me add to the good things..., You and my ancestors have given me...

Wakan-Tanka...., I thank you for those who are yet to come...
...and who will carry on, from where we leave off....
Help them preserve the traditional life.., for the generation to come after them...
....and so keep the hoop turning...

Finally.., Wakan-Tanka....,
I thank you for my friends.., who are here with me to share this precious moment...
I pray.., that you will bless them....
..and always be with them...."

---- Chief Frank Fools Crow

"Grandfather Great Spirit....
Fill us with the Light....
Give us the strength to understand....
And the eyes to see....

Teach us to walk the soft earth...
as relatives to all that live...."

---- Geronimo (Goyathlay) - Chiricahua Apache

"Realize...., that we as human beings have been put on this earth for only a short time....
....and that we must use this time to gain wisdom, knowledge, respect and understanding....
....for all human beings....,
....since we are all relatives."

---- Cree Proverb

"One thing to remember, is to talk to the animals....
If you do, they will talk back to you....
But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you...,
,,,,then you won't understand.... and when you don't understand, you will fear....
....and when you fear...., you will destroy the animals....
.... and if you destroy the animals.., you will destroy yourself...."

---- Chief Dan George

"We see quite clearly, that what happens
to the nonhuman, happens to the human.
What happens to the outer world,
happens to the inner world.
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur,
then the emotional, imaginative,
intellectual, and spiritual life of the human
is diminished or extinguished.

Without the soaring birds, the great forests,
the sounds and coloration of the insects,
the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields,
the sight of the clouds by day
and the stars at night, we become impoverished
in all that makes us human."

---- Thomas Berry

"Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught...,
will we realize.....
....we cannot eat money."

---- Cree Saying

"I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy."

---- Black Elk

"Oh Great Spirit,
Whose voice I hear in the winds,
And whose breath gives life to all the world,
...hear me!"

---- Chief Yellow Lark