It's not an investment if its destroying the planet.

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

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

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.

When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

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