The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realise that we can not eat money.

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.

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

We are all children of the Great Spirit, we all belong to Mother Earth. Our planet is in great trouble and if we keep carrying old grudges and do not work together, we will all die.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

The stars are on the inside. They are effing beautiful.

Only the force of American arms, or the extremely credible threat of that force, can bring a fresh face to power.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

You don't write. You get out of the way.

It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.