What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
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Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
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Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons.
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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
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Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.
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