Vandana Shiva (born 5 November 1952) is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books. These inspirational Vandana Shiva quotes will uplift your life.
Best Vandana Shiva Quotes
- “Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty, and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.” – Vandana Shiva
- “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
- “Uniformity is not nature’s way; diversity is nature’s way.” – Vandana Shiva
- “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
- “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.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.” – Vandana Shiva
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“In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.” – Vandana Shiva
- “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
- “Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.” – Vandana Shiva
- “I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it’s about controlling the world.” – Vandana Shiva
- “You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.” – Vandana Shiva
- “It is not an investment if it destroys the planet” – Vandana Shiva
- “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
- “The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.” – Vandana Shiva
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“It’s not an investment if it is destroying the planet.” – Vandana Shiva
- “If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.” – Vandana Shiva
- “In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She’s the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.” – Vandana Shiva
- “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.” – Vandana Shiva
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“The only way to build hope is through the Earth.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.” – Vandana Shiva
- “When you don’t take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.” – Vandana Shiva
- “The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.” – Vandana Shiva
- “As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.” – Vandana Shiva
- “I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.” – Vandana Shiva
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“My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.” – Vandana Shiva
- “I do have fun. Even when Im fighting Im enjoying it: I think theres nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.” – Vandana Shiva
- “We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.” – Vandana Shiva
- “We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Food is the place where you begin.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.” – Vandana Shiva
- “In civilizational issues, you don’t look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!” – Vandana Shiva
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“It is often too late by the time the government reacts.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Governments have a favorite phrase: lean and mean. But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Biotech and geoengineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.” – Vandana Shiva
- “Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.” – Vandana Shiva
- “The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live” – Vandana Shiva
- “It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.” – Vandana Shiva
- “It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.” – Vandana Shiva
- “The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.” – Vandana Shiva
- “When you control seed, you control food.” – Vandana Shiva
- “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.” – Vandana Shiva
