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, August 24, 2012

The task is not to know the unknown but to be penetrated with it.



"To think of God is not to find Him as an object of our minds, but to find ourselves in Him . . . , a perception of our being perceived.  The task is not to know the unknown but to be penetrated with it; not to know but to be known to Him, to expose ourselves to Him rather than Him to us."

Rabbi Abraham Heschel

Photo: Moss-covered Pacific Silver Fir trunks in the fog, Mount Rainier National Park, WA; July 23, 2012

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