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.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

The tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow.


"A snow-covered plain is the face of death; yet snow is but the mask of the life-giving rain; it, too, is the friend of man, - the tender, sculpturesque, immaculate, warming, fertilizing snow."

John Burroughs
(friend of John Muir)

Photo: Montgomery Pass, Medicine Bow Mountains; March 2, 2013

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