Chief Seattle Quotes

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.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

All human beings are interconnected, one with all other elements in creation.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.

In an organic environment, every place is unique, and the different places also cooperate, with no parts left over, to create a global whole - a whole which can be identified by everyone who is part of it.

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

I am a part of all that I have met.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.