Vandana Shiva Quotes
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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
— Vandana Shiva
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.
— Vandana Shiva
Food is the place where you begin.
— Vandana Shiva
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
— Vandana Shiva
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
— Vandana Shiva
Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
— Vandana Shiva
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
— Vandana Shiva
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
— Vandana Shiva
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
— Vandana Shiva
Climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is impacting us every day, everywhere.
— Vandana Shiva
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
— Vandana Shiva
When you control seed you control food
— Vandana Shiva
The fight for truth ... is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
— Vandana Shiva
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
— Vandana Shiva
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
— Vandana Shiva
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
— Vandana Shiva
Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
— Vandana Shiva
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
— Vandana Shiva
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
— Vandana Shiva
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.
— Vandana Shiva
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It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
— Vandana Shiva
I do have fun. Even when I'm fighting I'm enjoying it: I think there's nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.
— Vandana Shiva
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
— Vandana Shiva
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
— Vandana Shiva
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
— Vandana Shiva
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
— Vandana Shiva
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
— Vandana Shiva
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
— Vandana Shiva
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
— Vandana Shiva
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances
— Vandana Shiva
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
— Vandana Shiva
The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
— Vandana Shiva
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
— Vandana Shiva
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
— Vandana Shiva
Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.
— Vandana Shiva
We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
— Vandana Shiva