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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.
Vandana Shiva
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Vandana Shiva
Age: 71
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
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