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Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings
Hardcover
AgricultureEnvironmental StudiesNature Writing
Publisher Price: $32.95
ISBN13: 9780801447099
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Sep 25 2008
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
Nature-study not only educates, but it educates nature-ward; and nature is ever our companion, whether we will or no. Even though we are determined to shut ourselves in an office, nature sends her messengers. The light, the dark, the moon, the cloud, the rain, the wind, the falling leaf, the fly, the bouquet, the bird, the cockroach-they are all ours. If one is to be happy, he must be in sympathy with common things. He must live in harmony with his environment. One cannot be happy yonder nor tomorrow: he is happy here and now, or never. Our stock of knowledge of common things should be great. Few of us can travel. We must know the things at home.--from The Meaning of the Nature-study Movement
To feel that one is a useful and cooperating part in nature is to give one kinship, and to open the mind to the great resources and the high enthusiasms. Here arise the fundamental common relations. Here arise also the great emotions and conceptions of sublimity and grandeur, of majesty and awe, the uplift of vast desires--when one contemplates the earth and the universe and desires to take them into the soul and to express oneself in their terms; and here also the responsible practices of life take root.--from The Holy Earth
Before Wendell Berry and Aldo Leopold, there was the horticulturalist and botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954). For Wendell Berry, Bailey was a revelation, a symbol of the nature-minded agrarianism Berry himself popularized. For Aldo Leopold, Bailey offered a model of the scholar-essayist-naturalist. In his revolutionary work of eco-theology, The Holy Earth, Bailey challenged the anthropomorphism--the people-centeredness--of a vulnerable world.
A trained scientist writing in the lyrical tradition of Emerson, Burroughs, and Muir, Bailey offered the twentieth century its first exquisitely interdisciplinary biocentric worldview; this Michigan farmer's son defined the intellectual and spiritual foundations of what would become the environmental movement. For nearly a half century, Bailey dominated matters agricultural, environmental, and scientific in the United States. He worked both to improve the lives of rural folk and to preserve the land from which they earned their livelihood. Along the way, he popularized nature study in U.S. classrooms, lobbied successfully for women's rights on and off the farm, and bulwarked Teddy Roosevelt's pioneering conservationism.
Here for the first time is an anthology of Bailey's most important writings suitable for the general and scholarly reader alike. Carefully selected and annotated by Zachary Michael Jack, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to Bailey's celebrated and revolutionary thinking on the urgent environmental, agrarian, educational, and ecospiritual dilemmas of his day and our own. Culled from ten of Bailey's most influential works, these lyrical selections highlight Bailey's contributions to the nature-study and the Country Life movements.
Published on the one-hundredth anniversary of Bailey's groundbreaking report on behalf of the Country Life Commission, Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings will inspire a new generation of nature writers, environmentalists, and those who share with Bailey a profound understanding of the elegance and power of the natural world and humanity's place within it.
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Plant-breeding: Five Lectures Upon The Amelioration Of Domestic Plants
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The Nature-Study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-Movement to Put the Child in Sympathy With Nature
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Plant-Breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants
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Plant-Breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants
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On The Influences Of Certain Conditions Upon The Sprouting Of Seeds, Volumes 1-37
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The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and the Professional and Commercial Grower, of the Kinds, Characteristics and M
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The Principles of Agriculture: A Text-Book for Schools and Rural Societies
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Cross-breeding and hybridization: The philosophy of the crossing of plants, considered with reference to their improvement under cultivation
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The Forcing Book: A manual of the cultivation of vegetables in glass houses. Vol. 1
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American Grape Training: An Account of the Leading Forms Now in Use of Training the American Grapes
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Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing
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Farm And Garden Rulebook: A Manual Of Ready Rules And Reference (1911)
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The Survival Of The Unlike: A Collection Of Evolution Essays Suggested By The Study Of Domestic Plants (1896)
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The Horticulturist's Rule-Book: A Compendium Of Useful Information For Fruit Growers, Truck Gardeners, Florists And Others (1889)
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On The Influences Of Certain Conditions Upon The Sprouting Of Seeds, Volumes 1-37
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Annals Of Horticulture In North America For The Year 1890: A Witness Of Passing Events And A Record Of Progress
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Annals Of Horticulture In North America For The Year ...: A Witness Of Passing Events And A Record Of Progress
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Cross-breeding And Hybridizing: With A Brief Bibliography Of The Subject
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Report Upon The Condition Of Fruit-growing In Western New York, Volumes 15-32
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The State and the Farmer: Presidential Address Before the Associatin of American Agricultural Colleg
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The State and the Farmer: Presidential Address Before the Associatin of American Agricultural Colleg
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The Principles of Agriculture: A Text-Book for Schools and Rural Societies
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Lessons With Plants: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common Forms of Vegetation
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Gentes Herbarum, the Kinds of Plants, No. 11: The Cultivated Brassicas, Second Paper
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The Pruning Book: The Pruning and Training of Plants As Applied to American Conditions
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American Grape Training: An Account of the Leading Forms Now In Use of Training American Grapes
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The Practical Garden Book: The Simplest Directions For The Growing of the Commonest Things In The Garden
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Botany for Secondary Schools: A Guide to the Knowledge of the Vegetation of the Neighborhood
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General Observations Respecting The Care Of Fruit Trees: With Some Reflections Upon Weeds
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Annals Of Horticulture In North America For The Year ...: A Witness Of Passing Events And A Record Of Progress, Volume 3
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The Survival of the Unlike: A Collection of Evolution Essays Suggested by the Study of Domestic Plants
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Gentes Herbarum, the Kinds of Plants, No. 11: The Cultivated Brassicas, Second Paper
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The Pruning Book: A Monograph Of The Pruning And Training Of Plants As Applied To American Conditions (1898)
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The Cultivated Poplars: With Remarks Upon The Planting Of Grounds (1894)
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The Horticulturist's Rule-Book: A Compendium Of Useful Information For Fruit Growers, Truck Gardeners, Florists And Others (1889)
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The Horticulturist's Rule-Book: A Compendium Of Useful Information For Fruit Growers, Truck Gardeners, Florists And Others (1889)
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Annals Of Horticulture In North America For The Year, 1889: A Witness Of Passing Events And A Record Of Progress (1890)
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The Horticulturist's Rule Book: A Compendium Of Useful Information For Fruit Growers, Truck Gardeners, Florists, And Others (1895)
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