Vandana Shiva Quotes

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.

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

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

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

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.

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

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.

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

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

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.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

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

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

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

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

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

It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

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

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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.

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.

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

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