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 30, 2014

We tend to be exclusively preoccupied with the human world only, and neglect the grandeur of the natural world.

 

"Most of us have no more AWARENESS of the grandeur, beauty, mystery, complexity, vitality, form and infinite possibilities of the world of earth and space, than the ant has of the landscape beyond the denuded perimeter of his anthill.  Why?  Because most of us are exclusively preoccupied with the human sphere only - or not even that much - obsessed with the interhuman, the personal, the subjective region . . ."

Edward Abbey

Photo: Sunset over Escalante Canyon, Escalante - Grand Staircase National Monument, UT; May 25, 2014

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