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.

Thursday, April 23, 2015

Love of heaven slanders earth; be true to the earth . . .



"Love of heaven slanders earth; be true to the earth . . . We in America are being systematically robbed. Robbed of the most elementary decencies of life - clean air, sunlight, pure unmedicated water, silence, solitude and space, even time, even death. Instead?

"Tee Vee. Hi-Fi. Super-Duper. Glittering shit. And, finally, morphine. Not socialism, not capitalism is the enemy, but - industry and technology carried to excess, to and beyond the point of madness."




"I'm back in Abbey's country again. I walk in beauty, I go in beauty. Red naked rock again, the enormous and dazzling sky . . . , magnificence everywhere I look. The brave, sweet, heartbreaking beauty of all wild and lonely things."

Edward Abbey 




Photos: (Top) Desert Paintbrush, pool, and one of the Courthouse Towers; (Middle) Juniper berries and sandstone formations; (Bottom) Cliffrose and slickrock. All three photos were taken in Arches National Park, UT, on April 18-19, 2015

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