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9781619025875 English 1619025876 By Turns Expansive and Compact, Growing from Tradition and challenging dogma, Liberty Hyde Bailey's environmental manifesto. The Holy Earth, draws on a deep well of agrarian tradition stretching back through Thomas Jefferson to Hesiod, while simultaneously invoking the profound scientific bought of the early twentieth century. It makes an impassioned pica for humanity to take a "new hold" in our outlook and sense of responsibility toward Earths ecosystems. Writing when farming was first beginning to face the rapid and extensive challenges of industrialization, Bailey asserts that the earth's processes and products, because they form the governing conditions of human life, should be understood first as divine, not economic. The natural world, of which humans are a part, is yet "beyond us" and our small comprehension, Bailey argued, and in order to rid ourselves of the "habit of destructiveness" we must change our thinking to live as cooperating parts of nature-not as dominators over the nonhuman. With words that would later influence such thinkers as Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and many others. Bailey laid out a prophetic vision that has never been as timely as not This centennial edition presents new editorial content and the restored and authoritative text, along with a new foreword by Wendell Berry to introduce this classic of American environmentalism to a new generation of readers. Book jacket., The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the turn of the last century, when farming first began to face the most rapid and extensive series of changes that industrialization would bring, the most compelling and humane voice representing the agrarian tradition came from the botanist, farmer, philosopher, and public intellectual Liberty Hyde Bailey. In 1915, Bailey s environmental manifesto, "The Holy Earth," addressed the industrialization of society by utilizing the full range of human vocabulary to assert that the earth s processes and products, because they form the governing conditions of human life, should therefore be understood not first as economic, but as divine. To grasp the extent of human responsibility for the earth, Bailey called for a new hold that society must take to develop a morals of land management, which would later inspire Aldo Leopold s land ethic and several generations of agrarian voices. This message of responsible land stewardship has never been as timely as now. "
9781619025875 English 1619025876 By Turns Expansive and Compact, Growing from Tradition and challenging dogma, Liberty Hyde Bailey's environmental manifesto. The Holy Earth, draws on a deep well of agrarian tradition stretching back through Thomas Jefferson to Hesiod, while simultaneously invoking the profound scientific bought of the early twentieth century. It makes an impassioned pica for humanity to take a "new hold" in our outlook and sense of responsibility toward Earths ecosystems. Writing when farming was first beginning to face the rapid and extensive challenges of industrialization, Bailey asserts that the earth's processes and products, because they form the governing conditions of human life, should be understood first as divine, not economic. The natural world, of which humans are a part, is yet "beyond us" and our small comprehension, Bailey argued, and in order to rid ourselves of the "habit of destructiveness" we must change our thinking to live as cooperating parts of nature-not as dominators over the nonhuman. With words that would later influence such thinkers as Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and many others. Bailey laid out a prophetic vision that has never been as timely as not This centennial edition presents new editorial content and the restored and authoritative text, along with a new foreword by Wendell Berry to introduce this classic of American environmentalism to a new generation of readers. Book jacket., The agrarian tradition runs as an undercurrent through the entire history of literature, carrying the age-old wisdom that the necessary access of independent farmers to their own land both requires the responsibility of good stewardship and provides the foundation for a thriving civilization. At the turn of the last century, when farming first began to face the most rapid and extensive series of changes that industrialization would bring, the most compelling and humane voice representing the agrarian tradition came from the botanist, farmer, philosopher, and public intellectual Liberty Hyde Bailey. In 1915, Bailey s environmental manifesto, "The Holy Earth," addressed the industrialization of society by utilizing the full range of human vocabulary to assert that the earth s processes and products, because they form the governing conditions of human life, should therefore be understood not first as economic, but as divine. To grasp the extent of human responsibility for the earth, Bailey called for a new hold that society must take to develop a morals of land management, which would later inspire Aldo Leopold s land ethic and several generations of agrarian voices. This message of responsible land stewardship has never been as timely as now. "