Belonging - to the land

In the days of the white settlement the natives of North America found ownership of land an incomprehensible concept. And so they lost it when the Europeans made them sign pieces of paper that were equally incomprehensible to them. They felt they belonged to the land, but the land did not belong to them. [emphasis added]

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth, p44 (Penguin Books 2009)

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