Nainoa Thompson Professions : Navigator Born : March 11, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Nainoa Thompson 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. Nainoa Thompson growing-up children travel When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart. Nainoa Thompson common-vision together people We can't care for something we don't understand. This is the purpose of why we explore and why we voyage. Nainoa Thompson voyages care purpose 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. Nainoa Thompson connections visions-of-the-future thinking As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. Nainoa Thompson who-i-am ocean culture Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean. Nainoa Thompson our-planet planets ocean In order to take care of our ocean, we need to be knowledgeable. Nainoa Thompson care ocean order We are a blue planet and an ocean world. Nainoa Thompson ocean blue world Similar Authors Amerigo Vespucci navigator Mau Piailug navigator John Nichol navigator Samuel de Champlain navigator All Authors
