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, November 14, 2012

All becoming has needed me. My looking ripens things.


"I feel it now.  There's a power in me
to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real
without my beholding it.
All becoming has needed me.
My looking ripens things
and they come toward me, to meet and be met."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Photo:  Sunset on Long's Peak, Keyboard of the Winds, and Pagoda Peak; Mills Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; November 9, 2012



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