More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
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.
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.
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
