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

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

My mother taught that if anyone needs you, you should be available to them.

We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he was afraid the institute would lose the World Bank consultancies.I went back home and started the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology—an extremely elaborate name for the tiny institute that I started in my mother’s cow shed. My parents handed over family resources and said, “Put them to public purpose.” That’s how I survived.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.