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.

Friday, June 7, 2013

A yearning for something lost, remote, past, future, forever out of reach.


"Not suicide but - TO VANISH.  Disappear.  Fade off into the wilderness, never return - apparently I'll never outlive this romanticism.  Forty-one years of searching . . .The heartsick yearning for something lost, remote, past, future, forever out of reach.  An absolute love for something absolute."

Edward Abbey

Photo: Pictograph from 5,000 B.C.E. ; The Great Gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, UT; May 24, 2013






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