Chief Seattle Quotes

Everything is connected to everything else.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

It may be that to eat and be eaten are the same thing in the end. My wisdom tells me that this is probably so. We are all made of the same stuff, remember, we of the Jungle, you of the City. The same substance composes us-the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star-we are all one, all moving to the same end. Remember that when you no longer remember me, my child.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans. We are all one interdependent organism, so our focus may seem broad but each element interacts with the other. We have so many phenomenal eyes, skills, and hands on deck. It's mind-blowingly exciting.

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.

I am two with nature.

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.

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

You must stop seeing God as separate from you, and you as separate from each other. [...] Nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.

There is no differentiation between all living things: trees, river, animals, and humans.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

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

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.