Importance of Forests Hahai nō ka ua i ka ulu lā’au – Rain always follows the forest Care for each aspect of nature, the kino lau of the elder forms of life, is a way of life. Anything which damages the native nature of the land, forests, ocean, and kino lau therein, damages the integrity of the whole. Animate and inanimate objects possess spiritual power or mana. Every form of nature is a body-form of some god or lesser deity and one’s spirit might cycle through other living things after human death. Native Hawaiians share spiritual and familial relationships with the natural resources around them. In Hawaiian culture, natural and cultural resources are one and the same.
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