Quote

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

Vandana Shiva

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Vandana Shiva
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 5
Author
Environmentalist
Philosopher
Politician
University Teacher
Writer
Dehra Dun
Make
Innovation
Life
Claims
Innovations
Forms
Biodiversity
Started
Patents
United
Applying
Culture
Cultures
Form
Phenomenon
States
Corporations

More quotes by Vandana Shiva

Image
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
Vandana Shiva
Image
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
Vandana Shiva
Image
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.
Vandana Shiva
Image
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
Vandana Shiva
Image
Ecofeminism is a good term for distinguishing a feminism that is ecological from the kind of feminisms that have become extremely technocratic. I would even call them very patriarchal.
Vandana Shiva
Image
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
Vandana Shiva
Image
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
Vandana Shiva
Image
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.
Vandana Shiva
Image
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Vandana Shiva
Image
Uniformity is not nature's way diversity is nature's way.
Vandana Shiva
Image
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
Vandana Shiva
Image
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
Vandana Shiva
Image
Something is very, very wrong when people don’t have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
Vandana Shiva
Image
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
Vandana Shiva
Image
An organic farmer is the best peacemaker today, because there is more violence, more death, more destruction, more wars, through a violent industrial agricultural system. And to shift away from that into an agriculture of peace is what organic farming is doing.
Vandana Shiva
Image
The problem of numbers can only be dealt with by recognizing that people have a fundamental right to economic security. If you provide them with economic and environmental security, the population will stabilize itself.
Vandana Shiva
Image
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.
Vandana Shiva
Image
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
Vandana Shiva
Image
I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.
Vandana Shiva
Image
I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. I’ve seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
Vandana Shiva