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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A reader knows the mind of sacred souls.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure out who I want to be.

I find that if I get up and push myself, I get lost in what I'm doing, and I forget about everything else until I stop doing it.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.

I try to make choices for my own life. And I try to make those choices count.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.