Vandana Shiva

“The only way to build hope is through the Earth.”

— Vandana Shiva

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

— Vandana Shiva

We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.

— Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

— Vandana Shiva

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

— Vandana Shiva

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

— Vandana Shiva

Everything I need to know I learned in the forest

— Vandana Shiva

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

— Vandana Shiva

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

— Vandana Shiva

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

— Vandana Shiva

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly…

— Vandana Shiva

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a…

— Vandana Shiva

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

— Vandana Shiva

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

— Vandana Shiva

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

— Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

— Vandana Shiva

I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It…

— Vandana Shiva

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence…

— Vandana Shiva

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of…

— Vandana Shiva

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of…

— Vandana Shiva

A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a…

— Vandana Shiva

I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our…

— Vandana Shiva

American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that…

— Vandana Shiva

Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's…

— Vandana Shiva

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just…

— Vandana Shiva

The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge…

— Vandana Shiva

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on…

— Vandana Shiva

We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in…

— Vandana Shiva

Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic…

— Vandana Shiva

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted…

— Vandana Shiva

The role of geo-engineering should, in a world of responsibility, in a world of scientifically enlightened decision making and ecological understanding, it…

— Vandana Shiva

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s…

— Vandana Shiva

Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who don’t have enough money to buy food should end up…

— Vandana Shiva

“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can…

— Vandana Shiva

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't…

— Vandana Shiva

I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an…

— Vandana Shiva

In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their…

— Vandana Shiva

“[How do I do it?] Well, it's always a mystery, because you don't know why you get depleted or recharged. But this…

— Vandana Shiva

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

— Vandana Shiva

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

— Vandana Shiva