BUNB

No, day and night connot live together.
We will consider your offer.
that the white man wishes to buy,
my people ask me?
The idea is strange to us.
How can you buy or sell the sky,
the warmth of the land,
the swiftness of the antelope?
How can we sell these things to you
and how can you buy them?
Is the earth yours to do with as you will,
merely because the red man
signs a piece of paper
and gives it to the white man?
If we do not own the freshness of the air
and the sparkle of the water,
how can you buy them from us?
Can you buy back the buffalo,
once the last one has died?

--by chief Seattle