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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

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.

Food is the place where you begin.

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

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.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is impacting us every day, everywhere.

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

When you control seed you control food

The fight for truth ... is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

Democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

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.

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

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.

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.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.