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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. This definitive edition
edited by 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.
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. This definitive edition
edited by 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.
"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.
"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.
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."
"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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