Big Island Quote by Jared Diamond

“The day’s most vivid exchanges were about a delicate but serious matter: the extreme foreignness of native Hawaiians. Both sides used racial arguments. Annexationists…

— Stephen Kinzer

“The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and…

— Sarah Vowell

Maui is a beautiful island. It's really the site of an ancient civilization that we've forgotten about, a civilization that existed millions of years…

— Frederick Lenz

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary -…

— Alan Brennert

The Hawaiian Islands were discovered by hardy Polynesian sailors, who crossed thousands of miles of open ocean in primitive canoes, braving violent storm-tossed seas…

— Dave Barry

“We had a lazy voyage, stopping at Fiji and other islands, and finally arrived at Honolulu. It was far more sophisticated than we had…

— Agatha Christie

There are stories of Maui everywhere in the South Pacific. They're different. Different areas have different interpretations. But and so we [with John Musker]…

— Ron Clements

“Hawaii's spirit of 'aloha' is captured in the essence of its sea and sky, the fragance of its precious flowers, and it's rich, volcanic…

— Andrew Pacholyk

The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination.

— Margaret MacMillan

Exploitation was rampant before statehood, and various factions actively tried to eradicate the roots of Hawaiian culture in the process of converting the natives…

— Todd Rundgren

“More than just a successful scientific experiment or an exercise in cultural wayfinding, Hōkūle‘a became an icon for the renewal of Indigenous Oceanic pride…

— Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua

Somehow, the love of the islands, like the love of a woman, just happens. One cannot determine in advance to love a particular woman,…

— Jack London