Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shivais an Indian scholar, environmental activist and anti-globalization author. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than twenty books...
Vandana Shiva quotes about
rights giving water
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
thinking glamour globalization
I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.
web-of-life whatever-happens happens
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
use corporations patents
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
agriculture care sustainability
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
way taught students
I did physics because of my love of nature. As a young student of science, I was taught that physics was the way to learn nature. So my travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology.
democracy
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
life letting-go art
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
father swimming apples
One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.
girl thinking india
I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.
fun fighting thinking
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.
mother creativity taught-us
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just the craft as a product but the craft as an embodiment of human creativity and human labor.
children men eggs
I saw some women had written that the cloning of Dolly was wonderful since it showed that women could have children without men. They didn’t even understand that this was the ultimate ownership of women—of embryos, of eggs, of bodies—by a few men with capital and control techniques, that it wasn’t freedom from men but total control by men.
violence needs patterns
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.