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The American Indian, the Native American....we have much to learn from this noble caretaker of
"the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,..."
Longfellow.
1. In 1854, the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle, spoke these words, words that inspire the environmental movement today:
a. " Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change.... To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground... Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays,... Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed..." Chief Seattle s Speech of 1854 - Version 1
b. " ...never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man--all belong to the same family..... This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors.... The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers, they quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes, and feed our children.
...you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care.
He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert." Australia by Holden Friday night beers--revisited.
What cold heart can read those words, and not heed the words of this wise soldier for the earth?
Excelsior!
Onward and upward, Greenists!
"the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,..."
Longfellow.
1. In 1854, the chief of the Puget Sound tribes of the Pacific Northwest......Chief Seattle, spoke these words, words that inspire the environmental movement today:
a. " Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change.... To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground... Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays,... Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed..." Chief Seattle s Speech of 1854 - Version 1
b. " ...never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man--all belong to the same family..... This shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water but the blood of our ancestors.... The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father. The rivers are our brothers, they quench our thirst. The rivers carry our canoes, and feed our children.
...you must henceforth give the rivers the kindness you would give any brother. We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.
The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth from his children, and he does not care.
He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads.
His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert." Australia by Holden Friday night beers--revisited.
What cold heart can read those words, and not heed the words of this wise soldier for the earth?
Excelsior!
Onward and upward, Greenists!
...............after 20+ years of falling all over themselves trying to make this happen, world governments dont give a flying fuck about climate change. They want to provide their peoples with cheap, dependable energy!! Of course.........or else, theyd get their asses handed to them at the ballot boxes.
