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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
