Liberty Hyde Bailey: Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings

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LIBERTY HYDE BAILEY This page intentionally left blank. L I B E RT Y H Y D E Bailey Essential Agrarian and Environmental Writings Edited by Zachary Michael Jack Cornell University Press Ithaca and London Copyright © 2008 by Cornell University All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. First published 2008 by Cornell University Press Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. [Selections. 2008] Essential agrarian and environmental writings / Liberty Hyde Bailey ; edited by Zachary Michael Jack. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978–0–8014–4709–9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Agriculture. 2. Nature conservation. 3. Environmentalism. 4. Country life. I. Jack, Zachary Michael, 1973– II. Title. III. Title: Liberty Hyde Bailey. SB63.B3B35 2008 630—dc22 2008014063 Cornell University Press strives to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials to the fullest extent possible in the publishing of its books. Such materials include vegetable-based, low-VOC inks and acid-free papers that are recycled, totally chlorine-free, or partly composed of nonwood fibers. For further information, visit our website at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu. Cloth printing 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Liberty Hyde Bailey, naturally, and for the holy earth, always The sower and the seer each Down life’s unending way Held fast his single speech And lived his sep’rate day. For one man cast his seed And sped the coupled hours, He stored his treasured meed And plucked his garden flow’rs. And one man stood alone Where all the world was his, All things that men have known And all that was and is. Alack, all ye that sow And alack, ye that see, No longer shall ye go All sep’rate and unfree: For one shall make far quests— The other ’side him fare And come back from the crests With star-winds in his hair. —Liberty Hyde Bailey, “Sower and Seer,” from Wind and Weather (Scribner, 1916) ...