All things are connected like the blood that unites us.
We did not weave the web of life.
We are merely a strand in it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves"
--Chief Seattle

In Memory of my brother
Edward A. Barr

You have noticed that everything an Indian does is in a circle,
and that is because the Power of the World always works in circles,
and everything tries to be round...
The sky is round like a ball,
and so are all the stars.
The wind, in its greatest power, whirls.
Birds make their nests in circles,
for theirs is the same religion as ours...
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing,
and always come back again to where they were.
The life of man is a circle from childhood,
and so it is in everything where power moves.

--Black Elk (1863 -1950) Oglala Sioux Holy Man

A Prayer For The Wild Things

Oh, Great Spirit, we come to you with love and gratitude for all living things. We now pray especially for our relatives of the wilderness-the four-legged, the winged, those that live in the waters, and those that crawl upon the land. Bless them, that they might continue to live in freedom and enjoy their right to be wild. Fill our hearts with tolerance, appreciation, and respect for all living things so that we all might live together in harmony and in peace.
- by Marcellus Bear Heart Williams



This we know. The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life, We are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves...
Chief Seattle

More Chief Seattle



After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And that company doesn't mean security.
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises.
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
And with the grace of an adult
Not the grief of a child.
And you learn to build all your roads on today
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain
For your plans.
After a while you learn that even sunshine
Burns if you get too much.

So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you will learn that you can endure
That you really are special
And that you really do have worth.
So live to learn and know yourself.
In doing so, you will learn to live.

ANON



Thought is the blossom;
language the bud;
action the fruit behind it.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson



Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Poor Richard, 1756.



Does the song of the sea end at the shore or in the hearts of those who listen to it?
-- Kahlil Gibran



There is no job so small that it can not defeat the man who is convinced he's too big for it.



Humility is a strange thing -- the minute you think you'vegot it, you've lost it.



Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
--Galbraith's Law



You can't always get what you want.
But if you try, sometimes you'll find what you need.
-Rolling Stones



To gain that worth having,
it may be necessary to lose everything else.
--Bernadette Devlin



I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
~ Henry Emerson Fosdick



Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones



It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
--Epictetus (50-138 A.D.)









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