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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. Youre going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.
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.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
