Notable Quotable: Consciousness

Today's quote comes from Chief Oren Lyons, a Native American inspirational leader and Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, speaking to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva Switzerland, in 1977.

Consciousness

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 consider
To understand where we are.

And we stand somewhere between
The mountain and the Ant.

Somewhere and only there
As part and parcel
Of the Creation.