“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.”
"We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer."
- Joel Salatin
Awareness
"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
"The goal of sustainable agriculture should be to regenerate the soil and the ecosystem, not just to maintain them."
- Joel Salatin
Environment
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration