“The enclosure of the commons began with land; today it is being extended to life itself.”

“Earth Democracy connects the particular to the universal, the local to the global.”

— Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy (2005)

“Indigenous knowledge is sophisticated knowledge, not primitive knowledge.”

— Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge (1997)

“Seed is not commodity. It is the embodiment of millions of years of evolution.”

— Vandana Shiva, Stolen Harvest (2000)

“I believe that if you just do your little bit without thinking of the bigness of what you stand …”

— Vandana Shiva, Vandana Shiva