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       Teach your children what we have taught our children,
that the Earth is our mother.
       Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

      This we know: the Earth does not belong to a man—man belongs to the Earth.
       This we know.

~ Chief Seattle, in a speech to the President of the United States, 1854