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.

Sunday, April 15, 2012

The world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.


"I frankly profess a somewhat mystical concept of nature; I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder.  Whatever mess we observe is our own responsibility! . . . There is a profound difference between recreation and re-creation, and the experience of nature relates to the latter."

Ansel Adams

Photo: White Violet in the mist, Young Gulch, Roosevelt National Forest, CO, April 14, 2012

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