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
Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I didn't leave physics because of boredom. I left it because other issues compelled me in a bigger way. And I always… — 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
We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of… — 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
When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
My links with [Mahatma] Gandhi now are very political links because I do not believe there is any other politics available to… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The people who see the population explosion in the Malthusian way - as a geometric progression - forget that population growth is… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I believe that we will see a lot of destruction, but I believe that if we can see the right patterns and… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage. — 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
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
A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a… — 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
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
I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us 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
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