"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures."

---- Geronimo - Chiricahua Apache leader

"We thank the Moon and the stars, who give us their light when the Sun retires....
We thank the Great Spirit, incarnation of all kindness, who directs all things
for the good of its children."

---- Iroquois prayer

"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 (1780 - 1866)

"Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors, the dream of our old men, given them by the great Spirit, and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people."

---- Chief Seattle

"Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its winding rivers, its great mountains and its sequestered vales, and they ever yearn in tenderest affection over the lonely hearted living and often return to visit and comfort them."

---- 1887

"I love this land and the buffalo and will not part with it... I have heard you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don't want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die. A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting."

---- Satanta (Kiowa Chief)

"When you were born, you cried... and the world rejoiced.
Live your life.., so that when you die...,
the world cries... and you rejoice...."

---- White Elk

"May the stars carry your sadness away....
May the flowers fill your heart with beauty....
May hope forever wipe away your tears....
And, above all, may silence make you strong....'

---- Chief Dan George (1899 -� 1981) - (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)

"It is better to have less thunder in the mouth.... and more lightning in the hand."

---- Apache Saying

"All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them."

"When we show our respect for other living things, they respond with respect for us."

"Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it."

---- Arapaho Sayings

"Most of us do not look as handsome to others as we do to ourselves."

---- Assiniboine Saying

"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."

---- Cherokee Saying

"Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins."

"Our first teacher is our own heart."

"Beware of the man who does not talk... and the dog that does not bark."

---- Cheyenne Sayings

"All who have died are equal."

---- Comanche Saying

"We will be known forever.., by the tracks we leave..."

---- Dakota Saying

"Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. "

---- Hopi Saying

"Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it...
... and start living the life the Creator intended for you."

---- Hopi Saying

"A brave man dies but once..., a coward many times."

---- Iowa Saying

"Force.., no matter how concealed.., begets resistance."

---- Lakota Saying

"When a man moves away from nature.., his heart becomes hard."

---- Lakota Saying