More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
