| Don't leave town until
you've seen the country.
- New Zealand promotion
It's fine to have recollections of the past but wisdom comes
from being able to prepare opportunities for the future.
- Te Wharehuia Milroy, Te
ahi kaa
The saying that 'Ko te kai a te rangatira, he korero' (The
food of rangatira is speech) is as relevant today as it ever
was, but the speech is now different. It is written, it is twittered,
it is all over the place, but the key is in the words, the ability
to use the words and the respect that people gain so that their
words are listened to.
- Moana Jackson, Ideas
The mind values most what it learns first hand.
- Promotion, Otago
Polytechnic
Public gardens, too, are responding to the demand for knowledge.
At Auckland's Botanic
Gardens in Manurewa, for example, staff have planted the
first of a six-stage redevelopment of its edible garden because
visitors say they want to see more vegetables.
- Maggie Barry, Natural
born Gardners
Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death.
Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has
taught me.
- Katherine
Mansfield
He aha te kai o te rangatira? He Korero, he korero, he korero.(What
is the food of the leader? It is knowledge. It is communication.)
- Maori
Proverb
Kohikohia he kai nö tö mahinga kai ka hoatu ai i
tëtahi wähanga. (Gather together food from your garden
and give some of it away.)
- Maori
Proverb
Manaki Whenua, Manaki Tangata, Haere Whakamua (Care for the
land, Care for people, Go forward)
- Maori
Proverb
Whaia te iti kahurangi. Ki te tuoho koe, me he maunga teitei.
(Seek the treasure you value most dearly. Should you stumble,
let it be to a lofty mountain.)
- Maori
Proverb
Whatungarongaro te tangata, toitu te whenua. (People come and
go, but the land remains.)
- Maori
Proverb
Ka pu te ruha, ka hao te rangatahi. (The old net is put to
rest, the new net goes fishing.)
- Maori
Proverb
Kohikohia he kai nö tö mahinga kai ka hoatu ai i
tëtahi wähanga. (Gather together food from your garden
and give some of it away.)
- Maori
Proverb
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is
used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb
for the hell of it.
- Edmund
Hillary
What binds us makes us strong.
- Wellington Lions
Rugby
We Maori may respect anthropology, but do not always believe
what it says about our society and customs. (Ko ta¯tau
ko te Maori, te¯ra¯ pea e manaaki ana i nga take tikanga
tangata, engari kaore e whakapono ana ki nga ko¯rero katoa
mo ta¯tau me a ta¯tau tikanga.)
- Ngata
dictionary
take tikanga tangata
anthropology
- Ngata
dictionary
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