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

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Simplify, simplify!


"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers . . . Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail. In the midst of this choppy sea of civilized life, [there] are clouds and storms and quicksands and a thousand-and-one items . . . Simplify, simplify."

Henry David Thoreau, 1854

Photo: Aspen trees growing next to a boulder at sunset; Red Feather Lakes, CO; October 12, 2013

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