Vandana Shiva

"We are living in an age of manufactured scarcity in a world of abundance."

"The real terrorism is the destruction of the conditions for life itself."

"Every act of care for the earth is an act of resistance."

"The universe is not a dead machine; it is alive and intelligent."

"We must move from a culture of violence to a culture of peace with nature."

"The earth gives us everything we need if we learn to live within her limits."

"Industrial thinking has separated head from heart, spirit from matter."

"A handful of soil contains more organisms than there are humans on earth."

"The rights of nature must become the foundation of all law."

"We are in the midst of a great dying of species because of human arrogance."

"Living systems cannot be designed or controlled; they can only be understood and respected."

"The seed is the ultimate expression of life's creativity."

"True abundance comes from diversity, not from monoculture."

"We have forgotten that we are part of nature, not separate from it."

"The destruction of nature is the destruction of the future."

"Indigenous peoples have always understood the sacredness of nature."

"Profit-driven agriculture is agriculture without a conscience."

"The earth is not a resource; she is a living being worthy of respect."

"We must recognize that the commons belong to all and to future generations."

"Nature's wisdom has been encoded in our genes and our instincts for millions of years."

"The forest teaches us that diversity creates resilience and strength."

"We are poisoning our children's future for short-term profit."

"The real economy is the ecology upon which all life depends."

"Every pesticide is a form of violence against life."

"The soil remembers. It carries the memory of all that has lived upon it."

"Corporate control of seeds is corporate control of life itself."

"We need to shift from extractive thinking to regenerative thinking."

"The earth has its own intelligence and its own purpose."

"When we protect biodiversity, we protect the future of humanity."

"False solutions like genetic modification ignore the complexity of living systems."