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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.

Vandana Shiva

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Vandana Shiva
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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Environmentalist
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Dehra Dun
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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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Food is the place where you begin.
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When you control seed, you control food.
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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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There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have invented the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds
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The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
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My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
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Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
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Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
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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 nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
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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.
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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.
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The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.
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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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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.
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Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence.
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