Lettre au président 1855 - Chef Sealth de la tribu Duwamish

Que sont les hommes sans les animaux ?
Si tous les animaux disparaissaient, l'homme mourrait d'une grande solitude de l'esprit, car tout ce qui arrive aux animaux arrive également à l'homme.
Toutes choses sont reliées.
Ce qui touche à la terre, touche les fils de la terre.

Chef Sealth de la tribu Duwamish, Etat de Washington, Lettre au président des Etats-Unis, 1855

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What are The man without animals?
If all the animals disappeared, the man would die from a big solitude of the spirit, because all which arrives at animals also arrives at The Man.
Any things are connected.
What touches the earth, touches the sons of the earth.

Leader Sealth of the tribe Duwamish, State of Washington, Letter to the president of the United States, on 1855

We sit in the forrest
Looking out through the trees
Seeing the squirrels, the birds, and, the bees

What a priviledge it is
To embrace natures art
Only she knows
When the cycle starts

A cycle which existed
Prior to man
Driven by the sun, and the moon
Ceaseless shifting sands

They once couldn't be counted
All the creatures on earth
Now some are so threatened
We pray they give birth

How will you feel
When a grandchild ask you
Why there's no 'Tigers'
Not even in zoos!!!


Jim.

The Amerindians also say: let us take care of the Earth, they are our children who lends her to us...