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 23, 2012

May I gird myself to be a hunter of the beautiful, that nothing escape me!


"My life partakes of infinity.  The air is as deep as our nature . . . I go forth to make new demands on life.  I wish to begin this season well; to do something in it worthy of it and of me; to transcend my daily routine and that of my townsmen; to have my immortality now, that it be in the quality of my daily life . . . May I dare as I have never done!  May I persevere as I have never done!  May I purify myself anew as with fire and water, soul and body! . . . May I gird myself to be a hunter of the beautiful, that nothing escape me!  May I attain to a youth never attained!  I am eager to report the glory of the universe; may I be worthy to do it; to be finished with regarding human values, so as not to be distracted from regarding divine values."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: Narrowleaf Cottonwood leaves glowing in last light; Red Mountain Open Space, Larimer County, CO; October 20, 2012
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