More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
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.
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and draw the right lessons from that destruction, we might be able to rebuild before it's too late. And then I have that ultimate optimism that even if we can't, life will rebuild itself. In a way, the global economy might collapse, but Gaia won't, and people's ingenuity won't. We will rebuild society, we will rebuild local economies, we will rebuild human aspirations.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
