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!

If you'd like to purchase photo-quote greeting cards, please go to www.NaturePhoto-QuoteCards.com .


In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

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

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Our true self is an inward light, springing up from within.


"The ever-advancing POSSIBLE self is a Divine revelation to us. It is an inward light, not shining from some foreign world, but springing up within, because the life of God is an inherent and elemental part of our being, and this Life is the inward light . . . It is literally closer than breathing - never far enough away to be near. The truth is that our souls open inwardly into God's Spirit . . . the Divine center . . ."

Rufus Jones,
Quaker scholar and writer





Photos: (Top) Alpenglow on Greyrock, from my doorstep, Larimer County, CO; (Middle) Long's Peak and sun, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; (Bottom) Joanne knitting by a rock in the sun, sheltered from the wind, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. All three photos were taken on December 27, 2014


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