Saturday, September 25, 2004

Prelude to tomorrow's essay

The sacred is the bond which connects the part to the whole. The soil is the source of integrity of people and nature. Its sanctity has to be preserved, limits have to be set on human action. Sacredness of the soil acts as a sanction against the violence of progress.

--Vandana Shiva (Extracted from her 1989 Schumacher Lecture in Resurgence magazine No. 142)


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