“It is hard for me to understand a culture
that not only hates and fights his brothers
but even attacks Nature and abuses her.
Man must love all creation or he will love none of it.
Love is something you and I must have.
We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it.
Without love our self esteem weakens.
Without it our courage fails.
Without love we can no longer look out confidently
at the world.
Instead we turn inwardly and begin to feed
upon our own personalities
and little by little we destroy ourselves.”
– Chief Dan George