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.

Monday, April 27, 2015

Camping involves no wearisome sermons - comfortable, commonplace, and humdrum.



"Camping: the delight of picking a place - fresh, beautiful. Here are no wearisome sermons - comfortable, commonplace, and humdrum. Instead, there is an escape from every phase of civilized formality, from all the fixed societal laws of action . . .




"Here we find ever-changing scenes: new "furniture" in the dining room every day and every meal. Suddenly, the great heaven is lighted with ten thousand gleaming worlds!"

The Contemplative John Muir




Photos: (Top) Our campsite at Arches National Park, UT; (Second) Desert Paintbrush, a rain pool, and The Three Gossips (Three Muses) at sunrise, Arches National Park; (Third) Whipple's Fishhook Cactus, Corona Arch Trail, near Moab, UT; (Bottom) Prince's Plume and Corona Arch, near Moab. All four photos were taken on April 19-20, 2015.


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