Sally Gregory Kohlstedt
Liberty Hyde Bailey inspired teachers, colleagues, and a conservation-minded public with his publications, most centrally The Nature-Study Idea. Introductory essays in this edition remind readers that his insight and his environmental concerns remain relevant more than a century later.
Dianne D. Glave
Twenty-first century environmentalism is the legacy of many, including Liberty Hyde Bailey, one of the pioneering minds in nature-study. This edition of The Nature-Study Idea is a crucial reminder of the many precursors of contemporary conservation and preservation.
Wes Jackson
In an agricultural bible, Bailey would be Moses for having written, 'If nature is the norm, then the necessity for challenging and amending the abuses that accompany civilization becomes baldly apparent by very contrast' (The Outlook to Nature). We don't have an agricultural bible, but this volume represents an encyclopedic guide for our time.
AG Rud
Rooted in American Transcendentalism, as was John Dewey, Liberty Hyde Bailey is underappreciated in philosophy of education and K-12 pedagogical practice. Bailey's The Nature-Study Idea is a powerful forerunner to ecojustice and environmental pedagogies we may only ignore or dismiss at our peril.
