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“In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Economy #Currency
“The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Humanity #Earth #Next
“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 their profits. And the profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit — profits extracted at the cost of life.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Loyalty #Country #Thinking
“I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Believe #Thinking #Enlargement
“We've moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we're moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we're creating incomplete human beings.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Moving #Creating #Information
“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.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Giving #Growing #Revolutionary
“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.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Earth Day #Way #Making Peace
“It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Investment #Planets #Destroying
“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.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Independent #Law #Hygiene
“The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Luxury #Justice #Diversity
“Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Two #Water #Earth
“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.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#War #Agriculture #Today
“Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Use #Corporations #Patents
“Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Rights #Giving #Water
“Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Nature #Food #Growth
“We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Democracy
“As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Usual #Poor #Schemes
“I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Giving #Needs #Hell
“We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Rights #People #Three
“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Inspirational #Inspiring #World
“Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Engineering #World #Saving
“You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Bacteria #Genes #Insert
“I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Thinking #Joy #Celebration
“Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Oil #Humanity #Soil
“Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Diversity #Way
“Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Violence #Needs #Patterns
“Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.”
-- Vandana Shiva
“If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Giving #Earth #Company
“Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Foundation #Source
“It is not an investment if it destroys the planet”
-- Vandana Shiva

#Investment #Planets

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