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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
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.
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.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
