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Lacrosse Player

Oren Lyons, born in 1930, is a renowned lacrosse player. He achieved remarkable success in the sport of lacrosse and is hailed as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.

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“We have to get back to the spiritual law if we are to survive.”

Ifs Spiritual Law Get Back

Author:Oren Lyons

“If you have a clean environment, you will have a healthy atmosphere. This will make you happy and your happiness will bring joy to your parents and it will affect the community, too. Then there will be peace of mind to one and all.”

Ifs Mind Joy Parent Community Environment Healthy Clean Atmosphere Peace Of Mind Make You Happy

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“* We can still alter our course. It is NOT too late. We still have options. We need the courage to change our values to the regeneration of our families, the life that surrounds us.”

Needs Stills Values Courses Peace Family Courage Late Our Family Too Late Surround Regeneration Courage To Change

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

Children God Earth Together Spirituality All Things Bounds Interfaith

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“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.”

Nature Forget Environment Four Environmental Superiors Seats Native Native American Eagles Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Delegation Native American Spiritual

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“Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.”

Different Share Diversity Rivers Human Rights Boat Brotherhood Indigenous Unity In Diversity Indigenous People Lacrosse

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“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.”

“The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.”

Problem Today Young Environment Generations Influence Youth Environmental Elders Our Environment Environmental Problems Young Generation Deteriorating

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“When you talk about Lacrosse, you talk about the lifeblood of the six nations. The game is ingrained into our culture and our system and our lives. (the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora)”

Culture Games Nations Our Lives Six Lacrosse Lax Mohawks

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“There are two times of the year that stir the blood. In the fall, for the hunt, and now for lacrosse.”

Years Two Fall Blood Hunting Hunts Lacrosse

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“Science can point out dangers, but science cannot turn the direction of minds and hearts. That is the province of spiritual powers within and without our very beginnings-powers that are the mysteries of life itself.”

Life Mind Heart Spiritual Turns Mystery Danger Heart And Mind Provinces Mystery Of Life Spiritual Power

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

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

Ifs Moral Governing

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“Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.”

Long Stories Goes On

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“We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.”

Said Two Law Nations Enjoy Can Do Built Two Things They Said Enjoy Life Ceremony Being Thankful

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“What if we choose to eradicate ourselves from this Earth, by whatever means? The Earth goes nowhere. And in time, it will regenerate... There may not be people, but the Earth will regenerate. And you know why? - Because the Earth has all the time in the world and we don't.”

People Ifs Knows World May Mean Earth What If 11th Hour

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“We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that and relate the way they should be, future is pretty dim for the human species.”

People Way Should Humans Earth Wonder Species Seven Billions Relate Human Species

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“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 beneath the ground. we never forget them.”

Knows Earth Faces Mother Walks Forget Generations Feet Plant Never Forget Our Future Future Generation Mother Earth Save Mother Earth

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“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 downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.”

Children Different Pay Vision Share Rivers Our Children Greed Boat Selfishness

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

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

People Natural Resources Natural Resources

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“Times change but principles don't. Times change but lands do not. Times change but our culture and our language remain the same. And that's what you have to keep intact. It's not what you wear - it's what's in your heart.”

Heart Culture Language Principles Land

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“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 to oversee, to be a steward. Man has responsibility, not power.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Whole Jobs Responsibility Rulers Exploits Stewards Controllers

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“We say that the faces of coming generations are looking up from the earth. So when you put your feet down, you put them down very carefully - because there are generations coming one after the other. If you think in these terms, then you'll walk a lot more carefully, be more respectful of this earth.”

Ifs Thinking Earth Faces Term Walks Generations Feet Respectful

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“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, you’ll suffer... If you don’t learn that, you can only suffer. There’s no discussion with this law.”

Ifs Law Suffering Dies Water Air Discussion Poison Degrade Where You Live

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“When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.”

Looks Sports Team Football League Organized Warfare Sports Team

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About the Author

Born: 1930
Known for: Lacrosse Player
Quotes: 26

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