Native American Wisdom

In age, talk; in childhood, tears. — Hopi proverb #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. — Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Lakota #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

The character of the landscape changes from hour to hour, day to day, season to season. Nothing of the earth can be taken for granted; you feel that Creation is going on in your sight. — N. Scott Momaday #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

Do not allow anger to poison you. — Hopi proverb #NativeAmerican wisdom #quotes

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature — the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself. — Dee Brown #NativeAmerican wisdom #quotes

After dark, all cats are leopards. — Zuni proverb NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

In the beginning was the word, and it was spoken. — N. Scott Momaday #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred — everything is for sale. — Oren Lyons #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. — Massasoit #NativeAmerican #wisdom quotes

It is senseless to fight when you cannot hope to win. — Apache proverb NativeAmerican wisdom #quotes

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us. — Hyemeyohsts Storm #NativeAmerican #wisdom quotes

Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. — Tecumseh, Shawnee NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

If you wonder often, the gift of understanding will come. — Arapaho proverb #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you. — Red Cloud #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. — Winona LaDuke NativeAmerican wisdom quotes

Man has responsibility, not power. — Tuscarora proverb #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

The media is saturated but the Sweetgrass still grows tall And Jesse John Blackbear talks to God in Cleveland, O-hi-yo And Washington is joking but the Navajos are not And Mother Earth keeps on giving while we're ripening. — Buffy Sainte-Marie #NativeAmerican

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace. — Frank Fools Crow #NativeAmerican #wisdom quotes

One foe is too many and a hundred friends too few. — Hopi proverb #NativeAmerican #wisdom #quotes

Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense. — Louise Erdrich #NativeAmerican #wisdom quotes