Vandana Shiva Quotes

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

I saw brilliant ideas coming out of the [Chipko] movement that needed better articulation, that needed elaboration and systematic analysis. I just followed that and it's been very exciting.

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.

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.

Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.

Food is the place where you begin.

Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.

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

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

Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.

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

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.

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people.

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.

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

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.

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

We can and must respond creatively to the triple crisis and simultaneously overcome dehumanization, economic inequality, and, ecological catastrophe.

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.