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Properties perceived in nature will depend on how one looks and how one looks depends on the economic interest one has in the resources of nature. The value of profit maximization is thus linked to reductionist systems, while the value of life and the maintenance of life is linked to holistic and ecological systems.

— Vandana Shiva

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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 future at all.

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.

Those least responsible for climate change are worst affected by it.

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

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The gradual spread of sterility in seeding plants would result in a global catastrophe that could eventually wipe out higher life forms, including humans, from the planet.

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