“The goal of sustainable agriculture should be to regenerate the soil and the ecosystem, not just to maintain them.”
"We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer."
- Joel Salatin
Awareness
"The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard."
- Joel Salatin
Inspiration
"Frankly, any city person who doesn't think I deserve a white-collar salary as a farmer doesn't deserve my special food."
- Joel Salatin
Belief in Self
"This magical, marvelous food on our plate, this sustenance we absorb, has a story to tell. It has a journey."
- Joel Salatin
Connection to Earth
"What starts on Monday should carry through to Friday; that is, enthusiasm."
- Byron Pulsifer
Environment
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
- Alan Watts
Environment
"Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—to the 'conquest' of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature."
- Alan Watts
Environment
"Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time."
Environment
"Bees are a sign of environmental health. A world without bees is a world that has lost its way."
Environment