We have reached a stage where governments and political processes have been hijacked by the corporate world. Corporations can within five hours influence the vote in the U.S. Congress. They can influence the entire voting patterns of the Indian Parliament.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because it creates… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war.… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the green-house gases… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
