More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
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.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
