“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.” – Vandana Shiva”

“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)

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

— Vandana Shiva, Biopiracy (1997)