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.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Reliance, Serenity and Waiting are True Greatness

 

"Alas for America . . . , eager, solicitous, hungry, rabid, busy-bodied America attempting many things, vain, ambitious to feel thy own existence, and to convince others of thy talent, by attempting and hastily accomplishing much . . . Speed and fever are never greatness, but reliance and serenity and waiting."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1847

Photo: View from Westridge Trail across the Plains, Lory State Park, CO, December 24, 2011

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