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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Liberty Hyde Bailey

Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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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0801457599

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

Essential Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

Essential Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Every family can have a garden." -Liberty Hyde Bailey Finally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influential literary gardener of the twentieth century have been brought together in one book. Philosopher, poet, naturist, educator, agrarian, scientist, and garden-lover par excellence Liberty Hyde Bailey built a reputation as the Father of Modern Horticulture and evangelist for what he called the "garden-sentiment"—the desire to raise plants from the good earth for the sheer joy of it and for the love of the plants themselves. Bailey's perennial call to all of us to get outside and get our hands dirty, old or young, green thumb or no, is just as fresh and stirring today as then. Full of timeless wit and grace, The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion collects essays and poems from Bailey's many books on gardening, as well as from newspapers and magazines from the era. Whether you've been gardening for decades or are searching for your first inspiration, Bailey's words will make an ideal companion on your journey.

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Comstock Publishing Associates

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150174027X

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The Holy Earth

Toward a New Environmental Ethic

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey,Norman Wirzba

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The Holy Earth

Toward a New Environmental Ethic

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey,Norman Wirzba

Written by the Father of American Horticulture, this 1915 work offers timeless reflections on the earth's intrinsic divinity. Its application of scientific principles to horticulture exercised enormous influence on environmental protection programs.

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0486470415

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Autobiography of a Farm Boy

By: Isaac Phillips Roberts

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Autobiography of a Farm Boy

By: Isaac Phillips Roberts

This autobiography of the first Dean of the College of Agriculture at Cornell University offers an unconventional account of farm life in New York and the Middle West during the nineteenth century, and of the difficulties attendant upon building up a vital and progressive agricultural college. Born in Seneca County, New York, in 1833, Isaac Phillips Roberts emigrated west--first to Indiana, where he worked as a carpenter until he was able to buy a farm, and taught school during the winters; then, in 1862, to Mount Pleasant, Iowa, in a pioneer wagon with his wife, Margaret, and daughter. In 1869, he became the Superindent of the Farm and Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Iowa Agricultural College at Ames, where he soon became Professor of Agriculture. In 1873, he returned to New York to take a similar position at Cornell University; shortly thereafer, he was made Dean of the Faculty of Agriculture and Director of the Experiment Station. During his thirty years of service in Ithaca, he wrote voluminously on agricultural subjects, and after his retirement, penned Autobiography of a Farm Boy, initially published in 1916, reissued by Cornell University Press in 1946, and now made available in paperback. He died in Palo Alto, California, in 1928.

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The Nature-Study Idea

And Related Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The Nature-Study Idea

And Related Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The aim was simple but revolutionary: sympathy with nature to increase the joy of living and foster stewardship of the earth. With this definitive edition, John Linstrom reintroduces The Nature-Study Idea as an environmental classic for our time. It provides historical context through a wealth of related writings, and introductory essays relate Bailey's vision to current work in education and the intersection of climate change and culture. In this period of planetary turmoil, Bailey's ambition to cultivate wonder (in adults as well as children) and lead readers back into the natural world is more important than ever.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

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The Manual of Gardening

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The Manual of Gardening

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

Comprehensive guide to everything you need to know about the garden from the American botanist, horticulturist, author and co-founder of the American Society for Horticultural Science. Contains detailed illustrations and black and white photographs.

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The Nature-Study Idea

And Related Writings

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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The Holy Earth

Toward a New Environmental Ethic

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey,Norman Wirzba

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Toward a New Environmental Ethic

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Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

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Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing

By: Liberty Hyde Bailey

This botanical book details the intricacies of commercial fruit-growing from preparation to cultivation, harvesting, and, finally, packaging and sale. An interesting and insightful book, Fruit Growing is a compete manual for the commercial fruit-grower, containing timelessly important information imperative to the success of such endeavours to this day. Written by the prolific Liberty Hyde Bailey, this text is a must-have for any prospective farmers of enthusiasts of Bailey’s work. Liberty Hyde Bailey was a famous American horticulturist and botanist who founded the American Society for Horticultural Science. This book has been chosen for its educational value is proudly republished here with a new introductory biography of the author.

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1528763769

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Farm and Garden Rule-Book

By: Liberty Bailey

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Farm and Garden Rule-Book

By: Liberty Bailey

This 1911 work updates Liberty Bailey's original "The Horticulturist's Rule-Book." It contains vital information regarding weather, soil, fertilizers, and manures, as well as planting and seed tables for all manner of agriculture workers.

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142901363X

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Principles of Fruit-Growing

By: Liberty Bailey

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Principles of Fruit-Growing

By: Liberty Bailey

In this 1898 book, Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858-1954), cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science, sets out the principles for growing fruit in America and includes detailed descriptions of suitable fruits and instructions on how to cultivate and market them.

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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

The Holy Earth

The Holy Earth

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

Autobiography of a Farm Boy

The Nature-Study Idea

The Nature-Study Idea

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Liberty Hyde Bailey

The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener's Companion

The Manual of Gardening

The Manual of Gardening

The Nature-Study Idea

The Nature-Study Idea

The Holy Earth

The Holy Earth

Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing

Fruit Growing - With Information on Location, Varieties, Selection, Soils and Other Aspects of Fruit Growing

Farm and Garden Rule-Book

Farm and Garden Rule-Book

Principles of Fruit-Growing

Principles of Fruit-Growing

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