“We should know that all things are the works of the Great Spirit. We should know that He is within all things: the trees, the grasses, the rivers, the mountains, and all the four-legged animals, and the winged peoples; and even more important, we should understand that He is also above these things and peoples. [The holy white buffalo woman explains the use of the sacred pipe:] "With this sacred pipe you will walk upon the Earth, for the Earth is your Grandmother and Mother, and She is sacred. Every step that is taken upon her should be as a prayer … All these peoples, and all the things of the universe, are joined to you who smoke the pipe - all send their voices to the Great Spirit. When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything … Every dawn as it comes is a holy event, and every day is holy, for the light comes from your Father Wakan-Tanka; and also you must remember that the two-leggeds and all the other peoples who stand upon the earth are sacred and should be treated as such. All the fruits of the wingeds, the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds are sacred and should be treated as such.” Black Elk, The Sacred Pipe, ed Joseph Brown, Penguin Books, Baltimore, 1972. • • • • • • #songbirdgrandmother #honorthesacred #blackelk #blackelkspeaks #whitebuffalocalfwoman #walkinbeauty #honorthemother #trees #animals #sacred #nativeelder #nativeamerican #nativeamericanteachings #takecareoftheearth #earthday #balance #harmony #respecttheearth #treesaresacred #climatechange #prayer (at Sedona, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwWBBE_hzWC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1actygxx3r9qu