Joel Salatin Quotes

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on.

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.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

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.

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

Stewardship of our air and water is a responsibility that should be free of the bias of politics. What's more, environmental regulators should abide by the law.

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

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

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

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.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.