“Because he knows so many ways to destroy his natural environment, Man must now become its custodian and caretaker for his own sake. He must exercise mālama, because if he starts selling parts of his natural environment abroad for creature comforts, he will lose it all, and be unable to survive here. If he uses up his landscapes, mountains, valley and vistas, or if he degrades his air and waters, he will destroy the beauty and hence the spirit of Hawaiʻi, and in so doing, his own spirit. Mālama is thus an imperative. It is applicable to our entire lives in Hawaiʻi. It is applicable to all our transactions with each other, to all of our transactions with the overseas world, and to all of the transactions between society and nature. Each of these transactions must meet the test of mālama at all times, without exception.”