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by Liberty Hyde Bailey,Norman Wirzba
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ISBN: 0486470415 Dover Publications Price: $8.95 |
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Acclaimed as the Father of American Horticulture, Liberty Hyde Bailey exercised enormous influence on early environmental protection programs. With this 1915 work, he helped set the stage for the ecology movement. In addition to his timeless reflections on the earth's intrinsic divinity, Bailey applies groundbreaking scientific principles to horticulture.
Reprint of the Scribner, New York, 1915 edition.
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Table of Contents for The Holy Earth: Toward a New Environmental Ethic
INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION RETROSPECT FIRST, THE STATEMENT: In the beginning The earth is good It is kindly The earth is holy SECOND, THE CONSEQUENCES: The habit of destruction The new hold The brotherhood relation The farmer's relation The underlying training of a people The neighbor's access to the earth The subdividing of the land A new map The public program The honest day's work The group reaction The spiritual contact with nature The struggle for existence: war The daily fare The admiration of good materials The keeping of the beautiful earth The tones of industry The threatened literature The separate soul The element of separateness in society The democratic basis in agriculture The background spaces.--The forest A forest background for a reformatory The background spaces.--The open fields The background spaces.--The ancestral sea