Welcome! I am a contemplative thinker and photographer from Colorado. In this blog, you'll discover photographs that I've taken on my hiking and backpacking trips, mostly in the American West. I've paired these with my favorite inspirational and philosophical quotes - literary passages that emphasize the innate spirituality of the natural world. I hope you enjoy them!

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In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Nature is Our Asylum


"Nature is the beautiful asylum to which we look in all the years of striving and conflict as the assured resource when we are driven out of society by boredom or chagrin or persecution or defect of character."

(Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Photo: Mountain Bog Birch flaming in autumn colors, with the peaks of the Mummy Range in the background; Comanche Peak Wilderness, CO, September 16, 2011

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