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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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Mistake
Healing
Diversity
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Economy
Currency
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Agriculture
Diversity
Balance
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Oil
Humanity
Soil
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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Believe
Thinking
Overcoming
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Nature
Diversity
Brotherhood
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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
EarthDay
Way
MakingPeace
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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Home
Justice
Needs
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Foundation
Source
SourceOfLife
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Giving
Growing
Revolutionary
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.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Humanity
NextSteps
Needs
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
War
Agriculture
Today
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Investment
Planets
Ifs
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Loyalty
Country
Thinking
We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Moving
Creating
Information
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Inspirational
Inspiring
Atlas
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Thinking
Joy
Celebration
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Engineering
World
Saving
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Nature
Food
Growth
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
― Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Mother
Agriculture
Giving
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