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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
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.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
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.
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.
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.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
