Steven Rinella

Squirrel was a thing people ate where I lived. It was part of the culinary lexicon.

— Steven Rinella

When I buy a new Leatherman, I carry it in the worn-out old sheaf from my 1994 Super Tool so that people…

— Steven Rinella

Urbanites tend to view eating as an event, a form of entertainment. They want things that are new, refreshing, mind-bending. It's not…

— Steven Rinella

I like to brag that I've eaten more freeze-dried food than any man living, which is probably a lie. What isn't a…

— Steven Rinella

I once spent 10 days wandering the Patagonian countryside in search of the perfect grass-fed steak, and I've engaged in the questionable…

— Steven Rinella

My brothers and I can survive in Alaska's backcountry for extended periods; we know how to fix things; we can handle the…

— Steven Rinella

Sure, hunters remove limited numbers of animals from the landscape for personal use. But with proper management practices and good habitat, those…

— Steven Rinella

If someone were watching from a distant planet, our beliefs might look like this: domestic animals should be more wild; wild animals…

— Steven Rinella

Trust me: anyone who ascribes to that old adage about not sweating the small stuff hasn't spent much time outdoors.

— Steven Rinella

If you think of the average hunter as a guy who hunts around his area, a lot of venison comes from a…

— Steven Rinella

When you're out in the woods, and you hear a gunshot, it is very hard to place - where it came from.…

— Steven Rinella

As much as I can do things where I make lifelong partners and outdoor adventures with my kids and train them up…

— Steven Rinella

People often assume that 'MeatEater' is a sort of reaction against traditional hunting TV, but it's really not. I never watched hunting…

— Steven Rinella

Anxiety in the parent creates anxiety in the kid.

— Steven Rinella

I like to put myself into situations where I can experience the unconfused purity of being a human predator. Situations where my…

— Steven Rinella

On the occasions that I've been sick from microscopic tormentors, I've tried to regard them in the same way that I regard…

— Steven Rinella

In 1999, I found a buffalo skull in the ground. There was just a little bit of it poking up. This was…

— Steven Rinella

New Yorkers are extremely varied, of course, but we are generally sharing an urban and civilized experience.

— Steven Rinella

Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.'

— Steven Rinella

The thing that I've found is there's more to it than just presenting them with good options. You need to step in…

— Steven Rinella

Growing up in Michigan, people I knew avid about the outdoors, they hunted and fished. That is how I viewed things. The…

— Steven Rinella

I derive more satisfaction from my dinner table than I do from my professional life - and I have a great job.

— Steven Rinella

I want my kids to know that they're at an eye-to-eye level with nature. They are not terribly removed from it. They're…

— Steven Rinella

Today, you want to be as fair to the animal as possible by diminished suffering and waste. If you have to shoot…

— Steven Rinella

Early maps were generally big flat landscapes with few internal features but all the waterways were marked on them. People knew to…

— Steven Rinella