Unless the poor of the world agitate for themselves to be heard, there will be no changes in their circumstances.

In civilizational issues you don't look at the tiny details as the debate. You have to look at the big picture!

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

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

I do not allow myself to be overcome by hopelessness, no matter how tough the situation. 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.

My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.