Vandana Shiva Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• 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.

  Vandana Shiva

  Home, Justice, Needs

  Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.50, Zed Books

• The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he was afraid the institute would lose the World Bank consultancies.I went back home and started the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology—an extremely elaborate name for the tiny institute that I started in my mother’s cow shed. My parents handed over family resources and said, “Put them to public purpose.” That’s how I survived.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Home, Technology

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

• There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example is the use of turmeric for healing wounds, which is something every mother and grandmother does in every home in India. Now the Mississippi Medical Center claims to have "invented" the capacity of turmeric to heal wounds.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mother, Healing, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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