--- title: "5 Soil Quotes By Vandana Shiva" description: "5 Soil quotes by Vandana Shiva. Plus more from Vandana Shiva and more Soil sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/vandana-shiva-2756_answers_in-the-seed-and-the-soil-we-find-the-ans_145363.jpg" --- > [In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/in-the-seed-and-the-soil-we-find-the-answers-to-every-one-of-the/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/vandana-shiva-2756_answers_in-the-seed-and-the-soil-we-find-the-ans_145363.jpg) > [In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/in-traditional-agriculture-the-soil-is-the-mother-she-s-the-mother/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e9b/vandana-shiva-2756_agriculture_in-traditional-agriculture-the-soil-is-t_426488.jpg) > [Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/soil-not-oil-holds-the-future-for-humanity/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d1/vandana-shiva-2756_humanity_soil-not-oil-holds-the-future-for-humani_2455699.jpg) > [For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/for-example-the-idea-that-objects-have-properties-out-there-in-fixed/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ad/vandana-shiva-2756_critique_for-example-the-idea-that-objects-have-p_3001508.jpg) > [The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-reductionist-measure-of-yield-is-to-agriculture-systems-what-gdp/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/785/vandana-shiva-2756_agriculture_the-reductionist-measure-of-yield-is-to_3161911.jpg) ## Other authors on Soil ## More 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/we-share-this-planet-our-home-with-millions-of-species-justice-and/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-enclosure-of-the-biological-and-intellectual-commons-in-this-way/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/ecofeminism-is-a-good-term-for-distinguishing-a-feminism-that-is/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/in-the-seed-and-the-soil-we-find-the-answers-to-every-one-of-the/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/we-could-replace-people-with-fossil-fuels-have-higher-and-higher/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/nobody-defines-it-as-something-women-shouldn-t-be-doing-in-a-way/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/because-of-these-new-car-models-there-is-suddenly-on-the-streets-of/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/diversity-creates-harmony-and-harmony-creates-beauty-balance-bounty/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/for-us-not-cooperating-in-the-monopoly-regimes-of-intellectual/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/i-describe-what-is-happening-as-food-fascism-because-this-system-can/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/my-mother-was-a-tremendous-woman-i-was-just-cleaning-up-old-trunks/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/patriarchy-is-based-on-appropriating-rights-and-leaving/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-poorest-of-families-the-poorest-of-children-are-subsidizing-the/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/water-must-be-free-for-sustenance-needs-since-nature-gives-water-to/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) > [The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vandana-shiva/the-abuse-of-the-earth-is-the-ecological-crisis/) [Vandana Shiva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vandana-shiva/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/soil/vandana-shiva/#itemlist", "name": "5 Soil Quotes By Vandana Shiva", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. 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