Collections Quote by Vandana Shiva

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a…

— Janine Benyus

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able…

— Vandana Shiva

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures…

— Vandana Shiva

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality…

— Alexander Lowen

“Monsanto, at least, has found a way to make the victims of genetic contamination pay for the privilege, and for a very wealthy corporation,…

— David Suzuki

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you…

— Janine Benyus

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

— Ani DiFranco

“Curiously, growing Papaver somniferum in America is legal—unless, that is, it is done in the knowledge that you are growing a drug, when, rather…

— Michael Pollan

“Two words that do have legal meaning are ‘organic’ in the US and ‘bio’ in Europe. So you can use these words to guide…

— Timothy Pyke

“Protection of intellectual property is clearly not the only, or perhaps even the main reason for Monsanto’s strategy in threatening to bring thousands of…

— David Suzuki

Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.

— Jerry Brown

I am sorry that the distinguished leader of the Republican Party in the House states that he is not versed in botany and publicly…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia