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We are a blue planet and an ocean world.
To be a navigator, you have to be fierce.
To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.
Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.
In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable.
They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.
In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.
If I have courage, it is because I have faith in the knowledge of my ancestors.
The uncluttered arena grants every living thing its unique existence. Including me.
The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.
The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.
We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage.
As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.
I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.
Listen cousin, the way things are supposed to work out, one day the struggles of all you screwed up little underdogs will forge a permanent rainbow that'll encircle this entire earth, I should live so long.
Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.
That's why we sail. So our children can grow up and be proud of whom they are. We are healing our souls by reconnecting to our ancestors. As we voyage we are creating new stories within the tradition of the old stories, we are literally creating a new culture out of the old.
Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet . . . we may rightly call a New World . . . a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.
I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.