Quotes from 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.

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

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

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

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

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

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.

Governments have a favorite phrase: "lean and mean." But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.

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.

The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.

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

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.

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

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

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

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

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

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.