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.

Monday, August 27, 2012

I am monarch of all I survey.



"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone . . . I retain the landscape, and annually carry off what it yields without a wheelbarrow.  With respect to landscapes, I am monarch of all I SURVEY.  My right is none to dispute."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Mountain Gentian, Rustler Gulch, Gothic (Crested Butte), CO; August 3, 2012

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