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The Vegan Lifestyle --- It's For Real!
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Monday, 6/2/08, 7p, McNail-Riley House, 601 W. 13th (at Jefferson), Eugene FREE - Map
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James
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The average American eats in a lifetime:
and 1,000 lbs. of other assorted animals.
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An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the threshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact, calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount of calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans. - Dr. John McDougall
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers (American humorist, 1879 - 1935)
Dedicated to Gentleness ... and the dream of a world in balance, where human and non-human animals have nothing to fear. - dedication in Dr. Michael Klaper's book, Vegan Nutrition: Pure and Simple
As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. - Leo Tolstoy
High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets -- many are fat themselves. - Dr. John McDougall, on the dangers of a high protein diet
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just. - Thomas Jefferson
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
To die for the revolution is a one-shot deal; to live for the revolution means taking on the more difficult commitment of changing our day-to-day life patterns. - Will Rogers (1879-1935)
The low-carb trend has sort of died on the vine. - Bob Goldin, Executive VP, Technomic, food industry consulting firm, Chicago
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. - James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning? - Marv Levy
But for the sake of a little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born to enjoy. - Plutarch (46-120 AD)
For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love. - Pythagoras (582 BC – 497 BC)
When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see. - François Fénelon (1651 - 1715)
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital. - Neal D. Barnard, M.D – Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
It is a sobering thought that animals could do without man, yet man would find it almost impossible to do without animals. - Ruth Harrison (1920 -2000)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity. - George Bernard Shaw, 1897
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking that created them. - Albert Einstein
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and put them on cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. - Dean Ornish, MD
Vegetarians always ask about getting enough protein. But I don't know any nutrition expert who can plan a diet of natural foods resulting in a protein deficiency, so long as you're not deficient in calories. You need only 5 or 6% of total calories in protein... and it is practically impossible to get below 9% in ordinary diets. - Nathan Pritikin
An important fact to remember is that all natural diets, including purely vegetarian diets without a hint of dairy products, contain amounts of calcium that are above the threshold for meeting your nutritional needs....In fact, calcium deficiency caused by an insufficient amount of calcium in the diet is not known to occur in humans. - Dr. John McDougall
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite---only a sense of existence. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance, like flowers and sweet-scented herbs---is more elastic, starry, and immortal,---that is your success. - Henry David Thoreau
If we do not unite to advance our founding vision for peace, we will perish by advancing our technology for war. - Brian D. Bogart
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Just let your love flow like a mountain stream,
and let your love grow for the smallest of dreams,
and let your love show,
and you’ll know what I mean --- it’s the season.
Just let your love fly like a bird on a wing,
and let your love bind you to all living things,
and let your love shine,
and you’ll know what I mean --- that’s the reason. - "Let Your Love Flow" written by Larry Williams, performed by the Bellamy Brothers
If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. - St. Francis of Assisi
Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars and when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about. - 'Ashley Wilkes', Gone with the Wind
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal (60-130 AD)
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe. - George Bernard Shaw
Should reverence for life be a priority in our lives? … Each day around the world, humans display supreme arrogance by ordering the death of other creatures for convenience, for progress or for sport. - Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D., Writer, Teacher, Seattle WA, Author "Healing Our World"
Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character. - George Bernard Shaw
Vegetarianism is a philosophy that manifests its reverence and respect for the well-being of all sentient life by advocating and striving for the ultimate adoption of a plant-based diet. - Stanley Sapon, PhD
I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb. - Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer/choreographer (1890-1950)
It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has. - Hippocrates (460 BC–380 BC)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. - Axel Munthe, Swedish Physician, Psychiatrist and Writer (1857-1949)
For those who are still merely vegetarian and not yet vegan, I ask, what in heaven’s name are you waiting for? - Howard Lyman, "No More Bull!"
People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a giraffe; a child drinking the milk of a mother cow is just as strange. - Michael Klaper, M.D.
You cannot overcome the enemy, until you’ve healed in yourself that which you find despicable in them. - I Ching, Book of Changes, c.2800 BC
Spring appears and we are once more children. - Anonymous
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. - Bradley Miller
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. - George Santayana (1863–1952)
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. - Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) Russian novelist.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo (1802-1885)
One day people will look back with amazement that we ever sought to grow our food with poisons. - John Robbins
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind. - Henry James
I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and protect all natural beauty upon the earth. - John Ruskin (1819-1900), English author
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. - Marshall McLuhan, 1964
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed. - Gandhi
I spoke often in Congress against the war in Vietnam and commented on congresspersons hiding from the reality of war by saying 'many eat the meat but few go to the slaughterhouse'. I said it so often I became a vegetarian. - Rep. Andrew Jacobs
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. - George Bernard Shaw
The person who kills for fun is announcing that, could he get away with it, he'd kill you for fun. Your...life may be of no consequence to anyone else but is invaluable to you because it's the only one you've got. Exactly the same is true of each individual deer, hare, rabbit, fox, fish, pheasant and butterfly. Humans should enjoy their own lives, not taking others'. - Brigid Brophy
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is---whether its victim is human or animal---we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity. - Rachel Carson
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust. - Aviva
If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant
This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain. - Mahabharata
Those whose minds are at peace and who are free from passions do not desire to live at the expense of others. - Acharanga Sutra
The transition of world agriculture from food grain to feed grains represents an...evil whose consequences may be far greater and longer lasting than any past examples of violence inflicted by men against their fellow human beings. - Jeremy Rifkin
If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling ---- killing. - Leo Tolstoy
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime. - Romain Rolland
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable - Thomas More
It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed. It was once considered foolish to suppose that black men were really human beings and ought to be treated as such. What was once foolish has now become a recognized truth. Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life. - Albert Schweitzer
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. - George Bernard Shaw
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another, even the lowliest creature; to do so is to renounce our manhood and shoulder a guilt which nothing justifies. - Albert Schweitzer
Until he extends the circle of compassion to ALL living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Dr. MLK Jr.
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality - Arthur Schopenhauer
Men hunt I think maybe because they have something wrong with their own equipment and they need something else to shoot - Pamela Anderson
Yes, sometimes unusual things happen after a switch to a vegetarian diet. I've seen a number of cases in which the poor people broke out in violent attacks of good health, followed by bouts of physical exercise and sweet thoughts. - Anonymous
I'd like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won't perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time. Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature. Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity. - Bob Barker
There exists a substantial body of competent and reliable scientific evidence that eating eggs increases the risk of heart attacks or heart disease....This evidence is systematic, consistent, strong, and congruent. - Ernest G. Barnes
If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat. - Kim Basinger
The fact is that there is enough food in the world for everyone. But tragically, much of the world's food and land resources are tied up in producing beef and other livestock--food for the well off--while millions of children and adults suffer from malnutrition and starvation. - Dr.Walden Bello
The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? - Jeremy Bentham
I went snorkeling and noticed how gently the fish welcomed us into their world... as compared to the violence with which we welcomed them into ours. I became a vegetarian. - Syndee Brinkman
May all that have life be delivered from suffering. - Buddha
Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country....Some people scoff at vegetarians, but they have a fraction of our heart attack rate…. - Dr.William Castelli
I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee. - Chelsea Clinton
I think and speak clearer since I cut the dairy out. I can breathe better and perform at a better rate, and my voice is clearer. I can explore different things with my voice that I couldn't do because of my meat and dairy ingestion. I am proud and blessed to be a vegetarian, everything became clear. - Common
If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. - James Cromwell
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs, is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification for indulging is such acts of brutality. - The XLV Dalai Lama
One day the world will look upon research on animals as it now looks upon research on human beings. -Leonardo Da Vinci
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger. - John Denver
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. - Harvey Diamond
The 1950's American dream of owning a mink coat is as dead as the 60 mink killed to make that coat. - Trish Donnally
I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products. - Clint Eastwood
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. - Albert Einstein
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have witnessed and tended to calves in rodeos who became paralyzed and whose tracheas were totally or partially severed. Slamming them to the ground has caused rupture of several internal organs leading to a slow and agonizing death. - Dr. E.J. Finocchino
For many years the media have been afraid of the Goliath power of the meat industry. (But David is coming!) - Pegeen Fitzgerald
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live. I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world - if we are superior to it. - Mohandas Gandhi
To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. - Mohandas Gandhi
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mohandas Gandhi
As custodians of the planet it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop this madness. - Richard Gere
People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory. - Richard Gere
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf. - Dick Gregory
I know hundreds of people who have spent years and thousands of dollars on tests looking for ulcers or spastic bowels. I tell them to lay off all dairy for two weeks. The results are usually so striking that it changes their lives. - David Jacobs
Cruelty to … animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility. - William Jones
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional health. - Dr. Michael Klaper
Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take. - Former Surg. Gen. C. Everett Koop
I grew up in cattle country---that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks. For the animals, the environment, and your health. - k.d. Lang
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. - Ali MacGraw
I abhor vivisection. It should at least be curbed. Better, it should be abolished. I know of no achievement through vivisection, no scientific discovery that could not have been obtained without such barbarism and cruelty. The whole thing is evil. - Charles Mayo (founder of the Mayo Clinic)
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain. - Paul & Linda McCartney
Fur used to turn heads, now it turns stomachs. - Rue McClanahan
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction. - Moby
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing. - Moby
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story. - Mary Tyler Moore
The standard four food groups are based on American agricultural lobbies. Why do we have a milk group? Because we have a National Dairy Council. Why do we have a meat group? Because we have an extremely powerful meat lobby. - Marion Nestle
Whenever we cause suffering or death to any other being, we cause suffering to the Great Life Force. - Shik Po Chih
When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. - William C. Roberts, M.D.
You know, we all oppose animal cruelty. But sometimes we forget that animals on farms suffer and feel pain like all other animals. They, too, deserve to be protected from harm and cruelty. - Charlotte Ross
The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to a time when people were selfish beyond belief. If you were some ancient tribal chieftain, and there was not a department store nearby 350 years ago, I'd understand. But now, we have synthetic fibers, and it's not necessary. The elitism of fur makes me wanna puke. - Gavin Rossdale
We should live in harmony with Earth not conquer it... or the animals. The other members of the National Football League say I'm in the minority... but they are. A majority of the world is vegetarian. - Former Steelers football Player Glenn Scolnick
He is a heavy eater of beef. Me thinks it doth harm to his wit. - Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
Animals are my friends---and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing's changed my life more. I feel better about myself as a person, being conscious and responsible for my actions and I lost weight and my skin cleared up and I got bright eyes and I just became stronger and healthier and happier. Can't think of anything better in the world to be but be vegan. - Alicia Silverstone
To be a vegetarian is to disagree---to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars---we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one - Isaac Bashevis Singer
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Some people are still going to want to eat meat... we do agree though that vegetarianism is a healthier diet. - David Stroud of the American Meat Institute
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. - Henry David Thoreau
No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. - Henry David Thoreau
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. - Leo Tolstoy
I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further - Mark Twain
I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die…I think there's something odd about eating another living anything. - Shania Twain
There were no Slaughterhouses in the Garden of Eden. - Unknown
Since visiting the abatoirs [slaughterhouses] of S. France, I have stopped eating meat. - Vincent Van Gogh
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out. Not just go out there and shoot Bambi. - Gov. Jesse Ventura
I became very critical of zoos and circuses and keeping animals in captivity. I wish it was against the law. - Christopher Walken
Those who are used to a cage will weep for a cage. - Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Chief Seattle's Letter
"The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them?
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people. We know the sap which courses through the trees as we know the blood that courses through our veins.
We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the dew in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and man all belong to the same family.
The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors. If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each glossy reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.
The rivers are our brothers. They quench our thirst. They carry our canoes and feed our children. So you must give the rivers the kindness that you would give any brother.
If we sell you our land, remember that the air is precious to us, that the air shares its spirit with all the life that it supports. The wind that gave our grandfather his first breath also received his last sigh. The wind also gives our children the spirit of life. So if we sell our land, you must keep it apart and sacred, as a place where man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow flowers.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
One thing we know: our God is also your God. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.
Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted with talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is to say goodbye to the swift pony and then hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival.
When the last red man has vanished with this wilderness, and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?
We love this earth as a newborn loves its mother's heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it, as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children, and love it, as God loves us.
As we are part of the land, you too are part of the land. This earth is precious to us. It is also precious to you.
One thing we know - there is only one God. No man, be he Red man or White man, can be apart. We ARE all brothers after all."
December 1854