The law says if you poison the water, you’ll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you’ll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live,…

- Oren Lyons

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

- Oren Lyons

When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from …

- Oren Lyons

Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And d…

- Oren Lyons

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

- Oren Lyons

Man sometimes thinks he's been elevated to be the controller, the ruler, but he's not. He's only part of the whole. Man's job is not to exploit, but …

- Oren Lyons

In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.

- Oren Lyons

The environment isn't over here. The environment isn't over there. You are the environment.

- Oren Lyons

What you people call your natural resources our people call our relatives

- Oren Lyons