Joel Salatin Quotes

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Nature is perfect.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Getting the balance right in everything is all of football and all of sport.

We are all part of the ecosystem.

Men and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

I am two with nature.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Nature is filled with tendencies and obstructions. Extremes beget limitations, even as a river by its own swiftness creates obstructions for itself.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.