Quotes from Vandana Shiva

The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

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.

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.

It is often too late by the time the government reacts.

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.

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.

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

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.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

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

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

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

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

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.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

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

The myth of "free choice" begins with "free market" and "free trade". When five transnational corporations control the seed market, it is not a free market, it is a cartel.

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.

Living democracy grows like a tree, from the bottom up.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on y6our shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you

Squeezing the lives of people is now being proposed as the saviour of the planet. Through the green economy an attempt is being made to technologise, financialise, privatise and commodify all of the earth's resources and living processes.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

The only way to build hope is through the Earth.