✫ Of the Earth
the answer
teach your children
the crossing
arise
stream of life
worship this world
little tree
seashore
o sweet spontaneous
when despair grows
to a butterfly
o nature
it was passed
colours of light
harvest hymn
song of the wave
beech trees petition
the first jasmines
away from us
wet grass of morning
o child beside the waterfall
now is come the month
come away
miracles
sioux prayer
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.
If men spit upon the ground,
they spit upon themselves.
This we know
The earth does not belong to us,
we belong to the earth
This we know
All things are connected
like the blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth
befalls the sons and daughters of the earth.
We do 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~