An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent… — 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
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
For example, the idea that objects have properties out there in fixed ways is an incorrect idea about the world. Properties are… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The kind of capitalism we are seeing today under this expansion of property into living resources is a whole, new, different phase… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own… — 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
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
Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up… — 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
