Vandana Shiva

It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.

— Vandana Shiva

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

— Vandana Shiva

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

— Vandana Shiva

That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That…

— Vandana Shiva

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

— Vandana Shiva

I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the…

— Vandana Shiva

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources…

— Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and…

— Vandana Shiva

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life,…

— Vandana Shiva

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is…

— Vandana Shiva

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the…

— Vandana Shiva

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or…

— Vandana Shiva

I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I…

— Vandana Shiva

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both…

— Vandana Shiva

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take…

— Vandana Shiva

I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and…

— Vandana Shiva

Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a…

— Vandana Shiva

The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people…

— Vandana Shiva

I started out in nuclear physics. But after I became more sensitized to the environmental and health implications of the nuclear system…

— Vandana Shiva

When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work…

— Vandana Shiva

We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are…

— Vandana Shiva

Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India…

— Vandana Shiva

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you…

— Vandana Shiva

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our…

— Vandana Shiva

I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always…

— Vandana Shiva

I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have…

— Vandana Shiva

We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall…

— Vandana Shiva

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet…

— Vandana Shiva

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent…

— Vandana Shiva

We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that…

— Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.

— Vandana Shiva

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves…

— Vandana Shiva

The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need…

— Vandana Shiva

I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just…

— Vandana Shiva

The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift…

— Vandana Shiva

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic.…

— Vandana Shiva

The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just…

— Vandana Shiva

My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged…

— Vandana Shiva

Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit…

— Vandana Shiva