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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
