Vandana Shiva Quotes
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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
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Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
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When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots.
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The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
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In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
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Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
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If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not inferior. It is only when you measure them as milk machines that they become inferior. What if we measured the dairy cows of America or Jersey or the Swiss Alps in terms of their work functions? They would be terribly inferior.
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In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
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Food is the place where you begin.
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An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
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I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always say to myself, "When I'm 60, I'd like to go back to what I interrupted."
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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
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Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.
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Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedomis becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.
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The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.