We Must Take Care Of The Earth

We are
a natural part
of the creation.
We were put here
on the sacred mother Earth
to serve a purpose.
And somewhere
in the history of people
we’re forgetting
what the purpose is.
The purpose is
to honor the earth,
to protect the earth,
to live in balance
with the Earth.
And we will never
free ourselves until
we address the issue
of how we live
in balance with the Earth.
Because I don’t care who it is,
any child who turns on their mother
is living in a terrible, terrible confusion.
The Earth is our mother, we must take care of the Earth.
--John Trudell **

**: Take Back the Earth Speech...Thanksgiving 1980

We are going to have to start
working more realistically
with a resistance consciousness,
a resistance, something we can pass on
as strength to the coming generations
--a resistance where organizational
and individual egos don't get in the way,
a resistance where the infiltrators
and the provocateurs and the liars
and the betrayers do not get in the way.
We will not get our liberation
if we do not seriously analyze
the experiences of our own lifetimes.
**

from Koyaanisqatsi