Earth Quotes by Vandana Shiva

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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 time we…

— Vandana Shiva

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

— Vandana Shiva

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

— Vandana Shiva