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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
