I Fought For Peace In The Fifties.

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.

Town After Town Has But One Newspaper Or One Radio Station. It Is Often Owned By Murdoch. Yes, We Don't Have As Much Freedom Of The Press As We Think We Have - Although The Traditional Freedom Of Speech Is Strongly Rooted In American Culture.

It's A Terrible Thing Being A Patriarch. I Don't Even Have A Gray Beard. But People Keep Calling Me Up For Advice.

Make The Kind Of Music You Love Even If You Never Hear It On The Air. This Was The Basic Lesson I'd Gotten From Alan [lomax]. Alan Said, Pete, Look At All This Great Music Around. You Never Hear It On The Radio, But It's Right There, Great Music.

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.