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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
That amazing power of being able to stand with total courage in the face of total power and not be afraid. That is stri shakti.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
I describe what is happening as 'food fascism' because this system can only survive through totalitarian control. With patents on seed, an illegitimate legal system is manipulated to create seed monopolies. Seed laws that require uniformity - which criminalize diversity and the use of open-pollinated seeds - are fascist in nature. Suing farmers after contaminating their crops, [...] is another aspect of this fascism. Pseudo-hygiene laws that criminalize local, artisanal food are food fascism. And attacks on scientists and the silencing of independent research [...] are examples of knowledge fascism.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
