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So spoke Seattle, Chief of the Dwamish and Alied Tribes of Puget Sound, in 1855, in reply to “the Great Chief in Washington (who) sent word that he wishes to buy our land. How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us”, he said.
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.
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© 1986 Kurt Benirschke and Andy Warhol and Richard L. Schulman
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Warhol, A., Benirschke, K. (1986). Introduction. In: Vanishing Animals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6333-0_1
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