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.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

All creatures emerge from the silence of divine love, as echoes of a love-word that never had a chance to be spoken!


All creatures come into being as they emerge at each moment out of the vast silence of divine love.  They are like echoes of a love-word that God was just about to speak before he lost himself - eternally - in blissful self-abandon.  Even though that word was never spoken, these echoes - in the form of rocks, weather systems, plants, animals, and human beings - somehow emerge anyway, radiant in all of their new-born glory. How amazing!

Photo: Sunrise on Lost Lake, Kebler Pass, near Crested Butte, CO; September 22, 2012
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