Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.

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

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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.

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

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

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The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

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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.

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

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Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

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