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, October 2, 2012

Insist on yourself; never imitate.


"Insist on yourself; never imitate . . . That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.  No person yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.  What is the master who could have taught Shakespeare?  Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton?  Every great person is unique . . . Is not a person better than a town? . . . Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo: Aspen leaf resting in a Douglas-fir branch; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; September 29, 2012
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