Liza Field
LIZA FIELD: Getting Back Home
How was your summer getaway?
“Trip from hell,” my neighbors reported.
They’d headed west to escape the mugginess, traffic, politics and heat of our Eastern states, hungry for clear mountain vistas,...
LIZA FIELD: Not My Job?
Environmental stewardship is everyone’s
responsibility, including Congress’s. That
is why I worked so diligently ... to protect
the Endangered Species...
LIZA FIELD: Trees Please
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head.
—William Butler Yeats
People...
LIZA FIELD: The Oldest Valentine
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken,
over-civilized people are beginning to
find out that going to the mountains
is going...
LIZA FIELD: Turning in Your Grave
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. —John Muir
Where do...
The Sound of One Fin Flapping
. . . For the call of the running tiide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.
- John...
A Place for Us?
There have been a few times in our history that we have completely transformed our understanding of the basic, fundamental question, what is our...
Eau De Toluene – A Scent No River Should Wear
After decades, my friend Mr. Crigger has abandoned his old foot-worn fishing spot along the river that bottoms our mountain watershed.
He quit not because...
Best Not Goof Off When It Comes to Clean Water
March 22 is World Water Day. It’s the biggest splash you’ve never heard of. Why?
Perhaps because it’s also National Goof-Off Day - a good...
The Superbug of Fatalism
Vaccines or none, human resistance is going haywire. So it appears from health headlines.
Epidemic diseases, morphing superbugs, allergies to everything - eggs, meat,...
Table It
At your next supper, passing around hot cornbread, squash, greens or apple pie, scoot back from the table a moment and digest one nutritious...
