You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers.
So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Teach your children that we have taught our children that the earth is our mother.
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth.
If men split upon the ground, they split on themselves.
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we cannot eat money.
Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
-Chief Seattle (Seattle, Chief Noah [born Si'ahl 1786-1866])-
Let's get together to protect the lungs of the earth