Vandana Shiva Quotes

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• In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

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  Economy, Currency

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.33, Zed Books

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• Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

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  Oil, Humanity, Soil

  Vandana Shiva (2016). “Soil, Not Oil: Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity”, p.15, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

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  Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• 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.

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  Earth Day, Way, Making Peace

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• 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.

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  Believe, Thinking, Overcoming

  "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.

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• Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

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  Agriculture, Diversity, Balance

  Vandana Shiva (2011). “India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

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• 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.

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  Home, Justice, Needs

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.50, Zed Books

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• 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.

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  Giving, Growing, Revolutionary

  Vandana Shiva (2016). “Stolen Harvest: The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply”, p.127, University Press of Kentucky

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• Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

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  Foundation, Source, Source Of Life

  Vandana Shiva (2014). “The Vandana Shiva Reader”, p.219, University Press of Kentucky

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• 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.

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  Humanity, Next Steps, Needs

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• 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.

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  War, Agriculture, Today

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• It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

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  Investment, Planets, Ifs

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• 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.

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  Loyalty, Country, Thinking

  "Making the connection". www.share-international.org. June 2011.

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• You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Atlas

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• 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.

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  Moving, Creating, Information

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• I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

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  Thinking, Joy, Celebration

  "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.

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• Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

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  Engineering, World, Saving

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• Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

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  Nature, Food, Growth

  María Mies, Vandana Shiva (1993). “Ecofeminism”, Zed Books

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• 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.

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  War, Democracy, Soil

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• In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

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  Mother, Agriculture, Giving

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• A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.

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  Thinking, Self, Roots

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

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  Mistake, Healing, Diversity

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• It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

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  Investment, Destroying, Planets

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• 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.

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  Luxury, Justice, Diversity

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• 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.

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  Independent, Law, Hygiene

  "Farming Free: An Interview With Food Sovereignty Activist Vandana Shiva". Interview with Thaddeus Christian, www.motherearthnews.com. June/July 2014.

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