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 HatchFort Collins, ColoradoP.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.
The Original Act of Creation is Still Happening
"Yellowstone Park is perhaps the best place of all for people who are suffering from the vice of over-industry, who are three-quarters dead by doing good and making money. For it is full of novel and startling wonders. Here, if anywhere, you will be awakened and healed . . . In no other place I know of may you more surely learn that the world, though made, is yet being made. The work of creation is still going on. God is doing his best in it, working with human enthusiasm and making everything sing the first song of creation, to shake up and surprise and frighten even the dullest, least sensitive observer into newness of life, out of soul-wasting apathy, and make him begin to live again . . ."
John Muir
Photo: West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, WY, September 4, 2011
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