Joel Salatin Quotes

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Ecology has become the political substitute for the word "motherhood.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

We're getting closer to our nature.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.