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.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Your love and my love and everybody's love is one Love, grounded in God.


"'Love is repaid by love alone' says St. John of the Cross.  So what can I give you by way of thanks?  I offer you your own charity, which is in you from Christ, through the Holy Spirit - and which is, insofar as it is of and from Him - my charity also and everybody's charity, and is the same infinite and simple and eternal act of Love, in Whom we are all one."

Thomas Merton

Photo: Rosy Paintbrush and American Lakes Basin, Never Summer Range, CO; July 13, 2012

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