Top 17 Quotes by Chief Seattle

About Chief Seattle

These are some quotes by No-nationality author Chief Seattle Leader, who lived between 1786 and 1866.

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

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

Chief Seattle

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.

Chief Seattle

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.

Chief Seattle

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

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

Chief Seattle

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Chief Seattle

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.

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

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

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.

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

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.

Chief Seattle

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.

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.

Chief Seattle

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