I guess I don't have a very delicate palate. I just like stuff if it's interesting. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Ian Frazier influenced me to an almost embarrassing degree. He was actually instrumental in getting me started in magazine writing. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Squirrel was a thing people ate where I lived. It was part of the culinary lexicon. — Steven Rinella Culinary Copy Share Image
When I started dating my wife, Katie, I ached for her from my knees to my throat. — Steven Rinella Dating Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get such a craving for squirrel meat that I'll go to extremes to get it. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
The amount of people I meet who are afraid of having a dangerous encounter with a mountain lion is staggering. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If you think of the average hunter as a guy who hunts around his area, a lot of venison comes from a… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I got an MFA in creative non-fiction writing at the University of Montana. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Growing up in Michigan, people I knew avid about the outdoors, they hunted and fished. That is how I viewed things. The… — Steven Rinella Growing up Copy Share Image
You find that our great conservation heroes tend to be people who had a radical engagement with nature. That involvement... breeds in… — Steven Rinella Conservation Copy Share Image
Early maps were generally big flat landscapes with few internal features but all the waterways were marked on them. People knew to… — Steven Rinella Attention Copy Share Image
Even in our understanding of surviving on the Great Plains, they would cover this enormous amount of ground. I imagine these people's… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I trapped for 10 years, selling the hides and everything. Muskrats, raccoons, coyote, mink, beaver, otter, fox. When I figured out you… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Faced with economic and climatic uncertainties, more and more people are discovering something that outdoor adventurers have known for a long time:… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
It'd be interesting to know how many pounds of game meat get turned into jerky every year in the United States. It… — Steven Rinella Food Copy Share Image
I became a father in May 2010 with the birth of my son, Jim. Like many fathers before me, holding my boy… — Steven Rinella Birth Copy Share Image
Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has… — Steven Rinella Abstract Copy Share Image
I was born with this wanderlust to move, constantly, as far as I could. It's more than I have a very hard… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
We wanted to make a show that not only highlights the adventure of hunting, but also the fantastic culinary opportunities that a… — Steven Rinella Adventure Copy Share Image
When I got trichinosis, I was shooting an episode of 'MeatEater' that involved taking a Navy SEAL officer on his first hunt.… — Steven Rinella Experience Copy Share Image
Like many hunters, I dream of one day getting a grizzly bear. Yet I've passed up numerous opportunities to legally kill grizzlies,… — Steven Rinella Animals Copy Share Image
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 Authoritarian Copy Share Image
When my father decided to instill in my two brothers and me his love for the outdoors - a love that he… — Steven Rinella Army Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People might say I'm a sucker for stupid gadgets, but I prefer to describe myself as a connoisseur. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I think just by saying, 'Here's this thing, here's how I understand it, here's what appeals to me about it,' that works… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I considered myself to be a pretty adept hunter. I'm good at spotting game. I'm good at reading signs when going through… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
Getting published was like God stamping you 'acceptable,' and all of a sudden you can start writing for other places. — Steven Rinella God Copy Share Image
Trust me: anyone who ascribes to that old adage about not sweating the small stuff hasn't spent much time outdoors. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“The Dilligas is perhaps the ugliest boat I've ever been on... Dilligas is an acronym: Do I Look Like I Give A… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I have family in Montana and Alaska. I travel to those places to hunt. — Steven Rinella Alaska Copy Share Image
Deer won't trust their eyes, and they won't trust their ears, but they'll always trust their sense of smell. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If I could be attacked by a grizzly and not be killed, or maimed in a way that made women afraid of… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
I take pride in owning gadgets that other people don't even know exist until I whip them out. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
From the time I was 10 years old, I was an avid fur trapper: muskrats, mink, raccoon, fox, all kinds of stuff… — Steven Rinella Fox Copy Share Image
“Every schoolboy knows that the Indians used every part of the buffalo, which is true. But they did not use every part… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
If you hunt and fish, you're waging a social battle... about the validity of these practices. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
There is a limit to political and public tolerance for sacrifice on behalf of wildlife. — Steven Rinella Animals Copy Share Image
People are losing track of the old ways of doing things and being kind of spoiled. — Steven Rinella Being Copy Share Image
Describing Wallace Stegner as an 'author' is like describing a grizzly as 'brown.' — Steven Rinella Author Copy Share Image
