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Teach your children
what we have taught our children:
that the earth is our true mother.
Whatever happens to the earth,
happens to the children of the earth.
If people spit on the ground,
they spit on themselves.
We know:
the earth does not belong to people,
but people belong to the earth.
We know:
everything is joined together in some way,
like the blood that runs through a family.
Whatever happens to the earth,
happens to the children of the earth.
We did not weave the web of life;
we are just a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web,
we do to ourselves.

Chief Seattle

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