In nature’s economy the currency is not money, it is life.
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.
Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it’s about controlling the world.
The time has come to reclaim the stolen harvest and celebrate the growing and giving of good food as the highest gift and the most revolutionary act.
I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand against, if you turn to the enlargement of your own capacities, just that itself creates new potential.
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.
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.
Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.
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.
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.
Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.
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.
We’ve moved from wisdom to knowledge, and now we’re moving from knowledge to information, and that information is so partial – that we’re creating incomplete human beings.
You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.
Uniformity is not nature’s way; diversity is nature’s way.
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.