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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
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.
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.
The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase of capitalism. It is totally inconsistent with democracy as well as with sustainability. What we have is capital working on a global scale, totally uprooted, with accountability nowhere, with responsibility nowhere, and with rights everywhere. This new capital, with absolute freedom and no accountability, is structurally anti-life, anti-freedom.
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.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
