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, May 10, 2012

The life of adventure is the only life that makes sense.


"The life of adventure is the only life that makes sense.  Adventure interpreted broadly, of course - to include not only physical action, exploration, but also human love, ideas and ideals, the arts, and the common and daily motion and conflict and trouble of everyday people doing the world's hard work, making everything else possible . . . Without this electric charge in the spirit, the world would not be the arena of infinite possibility and adventure it seems to me to be . . . Life is a bitch. And then you die?  No: Life is a joyous adventure.  And THEN you die."

Edward Abbey

Photo: Joanne hiking up Professor Creek in Mary Jane Canyon, Castle Valley, UT, April 21, 2012

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