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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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.
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.
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
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.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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.
