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paleonotes

  1. Refusing to let the opposition determine the lingo is one of the strongest ways to maintain clarity. ~ @JoelSalatin
  2. Problems created by technology generally don't have technological solutions. ~ @JoelSalatin
  3. One of the most poignant and active environmental decisions you can make is to patronize 100 percent grass-based herbivores… ~ @JoelSalatin
  4. The only … reason that the current grain-fed beef and dairy factory system works is because petroleum is cheap. ~ @JoelSalatin
  5. Hell is other people's health food. #paleo
  6. Simple, regenerative, locally appropriate systems always work better than high-tech bureaucratic know-it-all Western dumping. ~ @JoelSalatin
  7. If nobody can move until everybody can, we'll never move. ~ @JoelSalatin
  8. …[I]f everyone who could do what is noble and right would do it now, the cultural shift would be like an epic earthquake. ~ @JoelSalatin
  9. If you really want to help impoverished people, get them started in animal husbandry. ~ @JoelSalatin
  10. Each morning I step out into dew-speckled pastures, each drop a rainbow-studded diamond…. ~ @JoelSalatin
  11. Devising lower-capital alternatives is our stock-in-trade, and we are really good at it. Turn us loose. ~ Allan Nation (via @JoelSalatin)
  12. Is it possible that our basic need to eat nutritious food could be more fundamental to our life than the latest computer chip? ~@JoelSalatin
  13. Nurturing life, tending animals, listening to the birds sing in the stillness of a rural morning, gives a sense that we are very small. ~ JS
  14. No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Edmund Burke (via @KeithNorris)
  15. We can discover all sorts of things through reading, but if they aren't valuable, aren't helpful, we've just wasted time. ~ Joel Salatin
  16. On many operations, we could change the spelling from farm to pharm and it would be more accurate. ~ Joel Salatin
  17. If we would simply apply the smell and sight tests to our farms, it would fundamentally change the way we produce food in this country. ~ JS
  18. If you have to get away to get your batteries recharged, don't come back. ~ Bud Williams (via Joel Salatin)
  19. …[W]e must get rid of this love affair with statistical growth as an inherently wonderful thing. ~ Joel Salatin
  20. @77Zero Good luck, dude. I love makin jokes with you and I can't wait to see what you come back with!