Vandana Shiva

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources…

— Vandana Shiva

The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because…

— Vandana Shiva

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic.…

— Vandana Shiva

In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence…

— Vandana Shiva

We could replace people with fossil fuels, have higher and higher levels of industrialization, of agriculture, of production, without thinking of the…

— 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…

— Vandana Shiva

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both…

— Vandana Shiva

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and…

— Vandana Shiva

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on…

— Vandana Shiva

I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an…

— Vandana Shiva

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written…

— Vandana Shiva

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

— 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…

— Vandana Shiva

Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit…

— Vandana Shiva

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

— Vandana Shiva

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted…

— Vandana Shiva

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on y6our shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you”

— Vandana Shiva

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

— Vandana Shiva

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

— Vandana Shiva

An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent…

— Vandana Shiva

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

The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you…

— Vandana Shiva

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

— Vandana Shiva

Every farmer must go to the seed industry every year to buy their seed and pay an 80 percent royalty to a…

— Vandana Shiva

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