Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?