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chief seattle or whoever

updated thu 31 jul 97

 

The Shelfords on thu 24 jul 97

Karl Platt wrote as part of the pollution thread:
>> "Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever
>> he does to the web, he does to himself." Native American Chief Seattle.
>
>The sender hasn't heard, but Chief Seattle never said any of this. On
>the contrary, these, and their adjoining remarks were exposed as a fraud
>in the '70's. Hello! Of course, there are people who still belive man
>can alter the earth's climate, too.

Sorry if all this has been thrashed out already, but my computer crashed
and took a lot of clayart messages with it. But it bugs me to think that
there might be no reply to this, so:

Karl -
The point is not who said it, but whether it is true. Its truth should be
moderately obvious, but apparently there are still those who need reminding.
- Veronica
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Veronica Shelford
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