Vandana Shiva

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

Gandhi is the other person. I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy — not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

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.

Whenever we engage in consumption or production patterns which take more than we need, we are engaging in violence.