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.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Industrial society is a prison, but the word "wilderness" is itself music.

"If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.”

"Wilderness.  The word itself is music."

Edward Abbey,
"Desert Solitaire"

Photos: (L) Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, UT; (R) Quartz rock and Professor Falls, Professor Canyon, UT.  Both photos were taken on May 31, 2014

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