Relationship With Humans
The White Tern is not considered threatened as it is a widespread species with several large colonies around the world.
The White Tern, manu-o-Kū, was named Honolulu, Hawaiʻi's official bird on April 2, 2007.
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Famous quotes containing the words relationship with, relationship and/or humans:
“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)
“From infancy, a growing girl creates a tapestry of ever-deepening and ever- enlarging relationships, with her self at the center. . . . The feminine personality comes to define itself within relationship and connection, where growth includes greater and greater complexities of interaction.”
—Jeanne Elium (20th century)
“The land is the host and humans merely guests.”
—Chinese proverb.