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!

If you'd like to purchase photo-quote greeting cards, please go to www.NaturePhoto-QuoteCards.com .


In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Staying indoors breeds insanity, while going outdoors is always healing.


"We must go out and re-ally ourselves to Nature every day.  We must take root, send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.  I am aware that I am imbibing health when I open my mouth to the wind.  Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always.  Every house is in this sense a hospital.  A night and a forenoon is as much confinement to those wards as I can stand.  I am aware that I recover some sanity which I had lost almost the instant that I come abroad."

Henry David Thoreau

Photo: A snowy day on Fern Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; February 1, 2013



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