Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.

We're living in the anthropocene age and now human beings will be the shapers of our future, that totally control the overall functions of not just our planet, but our relationship with other planets.

Governments have a favorite phrase: “lean and mean.” But they’ve been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it’s time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

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.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.

I still can't figure out what inspired me to do physics. But since I was nine or ten years old, I wanted to be like [Albert] Einstein. He was my hero. I knew no physicists. I knew no scientists. I had nobody around me. And I went to a convent that didn't even have higher mathematics and physics. I taught myself these subjects in order to get into university.