I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
Vandana ShivaRead
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.
Interpretation
The future of humanity depends on women's leadership in environmental sustainability.
Vandana Shiva emphasizes the crucial role of women in guiding humanity towards a sustainable and peaceful coexistence with the Earth. This quote underlines the urgency of addressing environmental issues through inclusive leadership, suggesting that without such leadership, the survival of humanity is at stake.
In practice
A keynote speech at a women's empowerment conference.
I like to live my life so that my loved ones give me the things I need as gifts and I give them the things they need. Frankly a society built around consumerism is hell
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.
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.
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
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.
Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
I'm so tired of waiting, aren't you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and ran forward until he met the quarters; uprooted them like grass and rushed on after his supposed-to-be conquerors, rolling the dikes, rolling the houses, rolling the people in the houses along with other timbers. The sea was walking the earth with a heavy heel.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME And down she shrank so small. And so she changed, while other folks Never tried nothin' at all.
If you don't jump on the new, you don't survive.
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