Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth. — Vandana Shiva

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

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. — Vandana Shiva

Food is the place where you begin. — Vandana Shiva

The only way to build hope is through the Earth. — Vandana Shiva

The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis. — Vandana Shiva

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. — Vandana Shiva

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she’s giving you great company. — Vandana Shiva

Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred. — Vandana Shiva

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

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology. — Vandana Shiva

You are not Atlas carrying the world on y6our shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you — Vandana Shiva

We’re still eating the leftovers of World War II. — Vandana Shiva

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it’s about controlling the world. — Vandana Shiva

To create the protection for the corporations, government is actually growing bigger than ever before, in every part of the world. Yet it’s growing extremely thin as a protector of people. — Vandana Shiva

Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances. — Vandana Shiva

In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life. — Vandana Shiva

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy. — Vandana Shiva

Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being. — Vandana Shiva

I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell — Vandana Shiva

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life. — Vandana Shiva

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

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them. — Vandana Shiva

It is often too late by the time the government reacts. — Vandana Shiva

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. — Vandana Shiva

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, ‘it’s mine.’ But when it comes to contamination, cross–pollination, health problems, the response is we’re not liable. — Vandana Shiva

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

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. — Vandana Shiva

You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it. — Vandana Shiva