A quote expounding an environmentalist views

Many politicians adopt 'green' policies to achieve mastery over nature and subdue it for their own purposes. Environmentalists are uneasy about any anthropogenic premises and suggest that the eco-centric approach is an arrogant form of speciseim which seems to suggest we have the right to be in control. Nature needs to be nurtured, preserved and protected for its own sake, not just out of concern for our own interests.

A famous response made in 1855 by a Red Indian, Chief Seattle expounds an environmentalists views:

''How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The Earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.He leaves his father's graves behind, and he does not care.He kidnaps the Earth from his children, and he does not care. His father's grave, and his children's birthright, are forgotten. He treats his mother, the earth, and his brother, the sky, as things to be bought, plundered, sold like sheep or bright beads. His appetite will devour the earth and leave behind only a desert.

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the Earth is our mother. Whateverbefalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. ''