I Write A Song Because I Want

Just As With Other Great Words, The Word Environment Means Different Things. You Might Say That A Cave Woman Twenty Thousand Years Ago Sweeping Out The Cave Was Improving The Environment. Many People Improving The Environment Think Only In Terms Of The Air They Breathe In Their Hometown And The Water In The Aquifer Under Their Hometown. My Guess Is Very Few Are Thinking Centuries Ahead Or Thousand Of Years Ahead, But That's What We Have To Do.

My Father, Charles Seeger, Got Me Into The Communist Movement. He Backed Out Around '38. I Drifted Out In The 50's.

Some Folklorists Just Collected Dead Bones From One Graveyard, Only To Bury Them In Another, Their Library.

I Came From An Intellectual Family. Most Were Doctors, Preachers, Teachers, Businessmen. My Grandfather Was A Small Businessman. His Father Was An Abolitionist Doctor, And His Father Was An Immigrant From Germany.

I Feel That My Whole Life Is A Contribution.