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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

Vandana Shiva
Agriculture, Diversity, Balance
Vandana Shiva (2011). “India Divided: Diversity and Democracy Under Attack”, p.68, Seven Stories Press

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Vandana Shiva
Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Vandana Shiva
Luxury, Justice, Diversity

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Vandana Shiva
Luxury, Diversity, Survival
Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

Vandana Shiva
Mistake, Healing, Diversity

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

Vandana Shiva
Diversity, Corporations, Wealth
Source: scottlondon.com

The system of technological production that we have today has been justified in terms of creating more goods to feed more people and to meet more needs. But it actually destroys more of the resources that we need in order to meet those multiple needs. If we shift to an ecological perception, a diversity perception, we realize that some of the instruments of which we are very proud are actually extremely primitive for dealing with nature. To me that is the great lesson of ecological awareness at the turn of the millennium.

Vandana Shiva
Order, Creating, Diversity
Source: scottlondon.com

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

Vandana Shiva
Diversity, Resistance, Celebration

For us, not cooperating in the monopoly regimes of intellectual property rights and patents and biodiversity - saying "no" to patents on life, and developing intellectual ideas of resistance - is very much a continuation of Gandhian satyagraha. It is, for me, keeping life free in its diversity.

Vandana Shiva
Ideas, Rights, Diversity
Source: scottlondon.com

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

Vandana Shiva
Rights, Diversity, Intellectual
Source: scottlondon.com

Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Vandana Shiva
Clever, Diversity, Perspective
Source: scottlondon.com

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