"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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