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 9, 2013

We experience immortality in the timelessness of a mountain day.



"Talk of immortality!  After a whole day in the woods, we are already immortal.  Where is the end of such a day? . . . Every sense is satisfied.  For us there is no past, no future.  We live in the present and are full . . . These diverse days are so complete there is no sense of time in them; they have no definite beginning or ending, and form a kind of terrestrial immortality."

The Contemplative John Muir, pp. 205, 206

Photo: Pasqueflowers blooming in front of Horsetooth Rock; Horsetooth Mountain Park, CO; April 8, 2013




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