Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

The system of seeds based on monoculture is wrong and inappropriate. The biodiverse system has produced more food, and biodiversity means that seeds must be in the hands of farmers.

My mother was a tremendous woman. I was just cleaning up old trunks and I found a book with her notes written during the war years, in the 1940s. She was studying in Lahore, which became Pakistan. She was writing about how women alone could bring peace to the world, that the men with all their greed and egos were creating all these tensions and violence. I always knew she was a feminist, ahead of her time.

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.

It is not an investment if it destroys the planet

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

If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.