Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When you take the entire system into account, ways of developing more of something in one dimension can actually create scarcities in… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If you read Wall Streets reports, they dont talk of soya bean as originating in China. They dont talk of soya bean… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If you see cattle as a source of organic manure, animal energy, as well as milk products, then Indian cattle are not… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people… — 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
