Words of Wisdom

"Stand Tall and Proud
Sink your roots deeply into the Earth
Reflect the light of a greater source
Think long term
Go out on a limb
... Remember your place among all living beings
Embrace with joy the changing seasons
For each yields its own abundance
The Energy and Birth of Spring
The Growth and Contentment of Summer
The Wisdom to let go of leaves in the Fall
The Rest and Quiet Renewal of Winter"
- Ilan Shamir, Advice From a Tree

If they breathe, they live,

If they live, they feel;

If they feel, they love

If they love, they are aware

If they are aware, they have a soul.

- Anthony D. Williams

 
 

"All things share the same breath - the beast,
the tree, the man, the air shares its spirit          
with all the life it supports.”
- Chief Seattle,  Suquamish Chief

 
 

"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the
breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow
which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."

- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

 
 

"I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for

 the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we

are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand

where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and

the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation."

- Chief Oren Lyons, Oneida in an address to the Non-Governmental

Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

 

 

 

"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and

you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you
will not know them and what you do not know, you
will fear.  What one fears, one destroys."

- Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh Nation, British          

Columbia, Canada

"We must protect the forests for our children, grandchildren
and children yet to be born. We must protect the forests
for those who can't speak for themselves such as the
birds, animals, fish and trees." 

- Qwatsinas (Hereditary Chief Edward Moody), Nuxalk Nation

"Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and
the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more
than we can ever learn from books."
John Lubbock

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished
and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never
attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they
are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net
of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
― Henry Beston