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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.
Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying no to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.
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In the seed and the soil, we find the answers to every one of the crises we face. The crises of violence and war. The crises of hunger and disease. The crisis of the destruction of democracy.
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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.
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I'm a woman, born the daughter of a feminist and the granddaughter of a feminist grandfather. I don't think I could have avoided working on women's issues. I don't do it as a career or profession it's my very essence as a human being.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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If you read Wall Streets reports, they dont talk of soya bean as originating in China. They dont talk of soya bean as soya bean. They talk of Monsanto soya. Monsanto soya is protected by a patent. It has a patent number. It is therefore treated as a creation of Monsanto, a product of Monsantos intelligence and innovation.
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The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
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The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
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When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
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If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
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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.
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The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.
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In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
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Nobody defines it as something women shouldn't be doing. In a way, there are more mathematicians, more doctors, more scientists in India than there are in this country. We even had a woman head of state, and that's something the United States has yet to catch up with.
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It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.
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Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.
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