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, April 16, 2013

God uses what in the temporal world is mere wreckage.


"God is the great companion - the fellow-sufferer who understands . . . He is the ideal companion who transmutes what has been lost into a living fact within his own nature . . . He saves the world as it passes into the immediacy of his own life . . . He uses what in the temporal world is mere wreckage . . . God is the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness."

Alfred North Whitehead

Photo: Pasqueflowers emerge from the ash; Hewlett Burn, Roosevelt National Forest, CO; April 14, 2013






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