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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
