More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
