"Bailey’s words will shine like a beacon for those seeking to articulate a compelling ethical and civic vision of sustainability in the 21^st Century." 

- Ben A. Minteer, Ph.D.  Arizona State University

Liberty Hyde Bailey: The Author

Liberty Hyde Bailey was a prodigious 20th century author, whose writing spanned eighty-one years. Bailey's name appears over 700 titles ranging from botany, horticultural, encyclopedias, poems, conservation, agriculture, democracy, education and spirituality all of which still inform us today. More than any other person Bailey was responsible for a new American literature of horticulture

THE BACKGROUND BOOKS: Among the volumes of Bailey's work, the more personal and philosophical writings are found in the Background Books: The Holy Earth (1915), Universal Service (1918) What is Democracy? (1918), The Seven Stars (1923), The Harvest: Of the Year to the Tiller of the Soil (1927), and The Garden Lover (1928). A volume of poems Wind and Weather (1916) rounded out the series. Some reviewers have recognized in them a quality of Whitman, and others have compared them to writings by Thoreau; all have agreed that the best are among those eulogizing the beauties of nature.

HOLY EARTH BACK IN PRINT!

To celebrate Liberty Hyde Bailey's 150th Anniversary and the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum's 70th Anniversary, Bailey's classic, "The Holy Earth" is back in print through MSU Press and the Liberty Hyde Bailey Museum.