Chief Gayle High Pine
The non-progressive Great Spirit. Traditionalism in the Modern World1973
For us the spiritual and the physical are one. Far from the Western dichotomies between God and humanity,…
Ancestral Traditions
Mbombog Bamut Baso Badjang
Traditional wisdom has given a transcendent meaning to emptiness, pain and disorder, has set limits to excesses and…
Hahaka Sapa / Black Elk
The Sacred Pipe1953
We have to understand that all things are the work of the Great Spirit. We have to know…
Guardians of the Heart of the World
Warning of the Elder brother to the Younger brother, from the Heart of the World1990
Until now we had ignored our little brother. We had not deigned ourselves to give him a seed….
Ohiyesa / Charles A. Eastman
The Soul of the Indian1911
Among us there were no more temples or sanctuaries than those of nature. Being a natural man, the…
Chief Seattle / Seathl
From the speech of Chief Seathl / Ted Perry1854
All things are connected, like the blood that unites our family. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does it to himself.
Oren R. Lyons
Listening to Natural Law2013
In the ideas of reneweing yourself and the ideas of finding peace in our community, you should tell…
Pythagoras of Samos
The Golden verses of Pythagoras
Do not fear, for the mortals are divine by race, to whom holy Nature everything will reveal and…
Zhang Zai
Western Inscription1060
Heaven is my father and the Earth is my mother, and even such a small creature as I,…
A declaration by the sacred sites Guardians of the Pamir, Tien Shan and Altai Sayan. Darvi Sum, Khovd aimag, Mongolia
Guardians and traditional cultural practitioners of the Pamir, Tien Shan and Altai Sayan2014
Joint declaration of the traditional custodians of the sacred mountains of Pamir, Tien Shan and Altai Sayan (Kyrgyzstan,…