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To Leave for Our Own Country
By John Linstrom The poems in To Leave for Our Own Country offer a new approach to place-based writing and thought in an often uprooted age. Ranging from the shores of Lake Michigan to the small towns of Iowa and Indiana, and finally landing in the heart of New York City, they follow the course of the…
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The Nature-Study Idea and Related Writings
By Liberty Hyde Bailey, edited by John Linstrom, foreword by David W. Orr, with an essay by Dilafruz R. Williams In The Nature-Study Idea, Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firsthand contact with the natural world. The…
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The Liberty Hyde Bailey Gardener’s Companion
Edited by John A. Stempien and John Linstrom “Every family can have a garden.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey Finally, the best and most accessible garden writings of perhaps the most influential literary gardener of the twentieth century have been brought together in one book. Philosopher, poet, naturist, educator, agrarian, scientist, and garden-lover par excellence Liberty Hyde…
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The Holy Earth
By Liberty Hyde Bailey, Centennial Edition, Foreword by Wendell Berry 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…
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