Hopi indian sayings

1. "Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins."

2. "Those who tell the stories rule society."

3. "The one who tells the stories rules the world."

4. "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak."

5. "We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea behind Indian religion: the land is the religion."

6. "The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it."

7. "It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; or standing long an oak, three hundred year, to fall a log at last dry, bald, and sere: a lily of a day is fairer far in May; although it fall and die that night, it was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; and in short measures life may perfect be."

8. "The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing, and healing."

9. "The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies."

10. "We are all flowers in the Great Spirit's garden. We share a common root, and the root is Mother Earth."

Above is Hopi indian sayings.