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.

Friday, March 16, 2012

The land belongs to the Great Spirit, not to any people.


"Some of our chiefs make the claim that the land belongs to us.  It is not what the Great Spirit told me.  He told me that the lands belong to Him, that no people owns the land; that I was not to forget to tell this to the white people when I met them in council."

Kanakuk
Kickapoo tribe
Addressing Lieutenant William Clark, ("Lewis and Clark"), 1827

Photo: Heart-leaved bittercress flowers above Upper Lake of the Clouds, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, CO; July 16, 2011

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