The World Will Be Solved By Millions

But If By Some Freak Of History Communism Had Caught Up With This Country, I Would Have Been One Of The First People Thrown In Jail.

It Was Rachel Carson's Famous Book 'silent Spring' That Got Me Involved With The Environment. I Read It In The New Yorker, In Installments. Up To Then, I'd Thought The Main Job To Do Is Help The Meek Inherit The Earth. And I Still, That's A Job That's Got To Be Done. But I Realized If We Didn't Do Something Soon, What The Meek Would Inherit Would Be A Pretty Poisonous Place To Live.

Now Somebody Will Ask Me, Pete, How Can You Prove These Songs Really Make A Difference? And I Have To Confess I Can't Prove A Darn Thing, Except That The People In Power Must Think They Do Something, Because They Keep The Songs Off The Air.

I'd Like To Be Remembered As The Sower Of Seeds. That's The Greatest Parable In The Bible As Far As I'm Concerned. Some Seeds Fall In The Pathway, Get Stomped On And Don't Grow. Some Fall On The Stones And Don't Even Sprout, But Others Fall On The Ground And Multiply A Thousand Fold.

Alan Lomax Is The Person Who I Think Should Be Given Major Credit For What Has Been Called The "folk Song Revival." My Father Participated With Him Because My Father Was A Musicologist And Urged Trained Musicians To Learn About "the Vernacular."