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More Quotes by Vandana Shiva
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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.
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.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy. The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people. They have no loyalty to anything apart from the base-line - their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit - profits extracted at the cost of life.
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.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
