"Teach your children what we have taught our children ...."

Teach your children what we have taught our children –

that the Earth is our Mother.

Whatever befalls the earth

befalls the sons and daughters of the earth ....

This we know.

The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.

We did not weave the web of life;

We are merely a strand in it.

Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.

Chief Seattle