Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive ,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was… — 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
