All VANDANA SHIVA Quotes about “Fathers”

“My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnÂ’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnÂ’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.”
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnÂ’t there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.”
“The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.”
“My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.”

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