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AMY GOODMAN: And for someone who isn’t so
hopeful, who is listening to this right now, trying to find their way, what
would you say?
PETE SEEGER: Realize that little things
lead to bigger things. That’s what Seeds is all about. And
this wonderful parable in the New Testament: the sower scatters seeds. Some
seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don’t grow. Some fall
on the rocks, and they don’t grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and
they grow and multiply a thousand fold. Who knows where some good little
thing that you’ve done may bring results years later that you never dreamed
of?
— Interview, Democracy Now, May
4, 2009
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In addition to
being America's best-loved folksinger and an untiring
environmentalist, Pete Seeger is a national treasure. He has been
at the forefront of the labor movement, the struggle for Civil
Rights, the peace and anti-war movements, and the fight for a
clean world. He has been a beacon for hope for millions of
people all over the world. Once blacklisted from national
television for being unafraid to voice his opinions, he was given
the nation's highest artistic honors at the Kennedy Center in
December 1994. In January 1996 he was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. Although he left Harvard during his second
year, in the spring of 1996 he was awarded the Harvard Arts
Medal, presented annually to a Harvard graduate who has
made an important contribution to the arts. He won a Grammy Award
for Best Traditional Folk Album of 1996 in February 1997 for his Living
Music recording "Pete." At the end of April 1999, he traveled to
Cuba to accept the Felix Varela Medal, that nation's highest honor for "his
humanistic and artistic work in defense of the environment and against
racism." In April 2000, he was named one of America's Living
Legends by the Library of Congress.
This Web site has been put together by Jim
Capaldi, a long-time admirer, as a tribute to
Pete and his many accomplishments, and as a resource for the type of folk music
that Pete Seeger has played for over seventy years. It is by no means an
"official" web site. Pete Seeger does not read messages sent
here, but he is aware of this website. _____________________________________________________________
This Pete Seeger Appreciation Page would be incomplete if it failed to pay tribute to Toshi Seeger, Pete's wife and partner for more than sixty years. Once Pete wrote: "Thanks to my wife Toshi, without whom the world would not turn nor the sun shine." She has remained by his side through it all, and they both have survived with their honesty, their integrity, and their love intact.
This photo of Toshi Seeger was taken at the annual Strawberry Festival by Econosmith.
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THE PETE SEEGER APPRECIATION PAGE WAS ESTABLISHED IN
DECEMBER 1995.
"It is better to
have struggled and lost, than never to have struggled at
all."
- Pete Seeger in the
film "Seeing Red"
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