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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
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.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
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.
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.
The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
