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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
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.
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops, [...] is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research [...] are examples of knowledge fascism.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
