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
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its… — 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
We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The reductionist measure of yield is to agriculture systems, what GDP is to economic systems. It is time to move from measuring… — 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
