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9780486470412

The Holy Earth Toward a New Environmental Ethic

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486470412

  • ISBN10:

    0486470415

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-04-23
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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

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