“A Living Sympathy with Everything That Is”
Liberty Hyde Bailey’s Ecological and Civic Vision
Cornell Plantations 70th Anniversary Lecture
10/29/2014 – 7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Statler Hall Auditorium, Cornell University
Scott Peters, Associate Professor, Horticulture Section, School of Integrative Plant Science and Faculty Co-Director, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, Syracuse University
Liberty Hyde Bailey is most frequently remembered as a pioneering horticultural scientist. But his most important legacy is his prophetic ecological and civic vision, expressed throughout his life work as a publicly engaged scholar. Join land-grant historian Scott Peters as he unearths wisdom and lessons in Bailey’s work that can inspire and guide the ways we approach the ecological and civic challenges of our time.