I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain.
Pete SeegerMy dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'
Pete SeegerBut I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.
Pete SeegerJust 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.
Pete Seeger