It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them. — 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… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Gandhis idea of swadeshithat local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give… — 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
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
The population explosion is an ecological phenomenon of displacement. Unless we solve that ecological problem of displacing people - to build huge… — 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 enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — 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
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and… — 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
