Where are we without the animals?
If the animals were gone, we would die
from a loneliness of spirit.
For whatever happens to the animals
soon happens to us.
All things are connected.
This we know.
The earth does not belong to us;
we belong to the earth.
This we know.
All things are connected.
Like blood which unites one family.
All things are connected.
Whatever befalls earth befalls the children of the earth.
People did not weave the web of life,
we are merely a strand in it.
Whatever you do to the web,
you do to yourself.
~ Chief Sealth (Seattle)
