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Food is the place where you begin.
When you control seed, you control food.
Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.
The abuse of the Earth is the ecological crisis.
It is not an investment if it destroys the planet
The only way to build hope is throuhgh the Earth.
Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.
We're still eating the leftovers of World War II.
It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.
It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
We must occupy the food system to create food democracy.
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.
I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.
My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.
The end of consumerism and accumulation is the beginning of the joy of living.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
Given that I was interested in physics, I think it was easier for me to do physics in India.
It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.
It is only with local [agriculture] that we can manage the complexity and care that sustainability requires.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.
In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.
Governments have a favorite phrase: lean and mean. But theyve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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.
Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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.
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
I do have fun. Even when Im fighting Im enjoying it: I think theres nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.
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.
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.
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.