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.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air.


"Let me have a draught of undiluted morning air.  Morning air!  If people will not drink of this at the fountain-head of the day, why, then, we must even bottle up some and sell it in the shops, for the benefit of those who have lost their subscription ticket to morning time in this world.  But remember, it will not keep quite till noonday even in the coolest cellar, but drive out the stopples long before that and follow westward the steps of Aurora [the Sun]."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: First light on Aspen leaves, Lost Lake, and Beckwith Mountain; Kebler Pass, near Crested Butte, CO; September 22, 2012

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