More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
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.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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.
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
