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.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Persons acquaint us with the impersonal . . .


"Persons are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul. In youth we are mad for persons . . . But the larger experience of man discovers the identical nature appearing through them all. Persons themselves acquaint us with the impersonal . . .


[For] the [impersonal] Oversoul is the background of our being, . . . an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed."

Ralph Waldo Emerson




Photos: (Left) A Cottonwood leaf rests on a root of its parent tree, Horsetooth Reservoir, Larimer County, CO, October 21, 2014; (Top RIght) Cottonwood trees, Horsetooth Reservoir, and the foothills, Larimer County, CO, October 21, 2014;(Middle Right) Cottonwood tree and cliffs, Red Mountain Open Space, Larimer County, CO, October 20, 2014; (Bottom Right) Red cliffs at sunset, Red Mountain Open Space, Larimer County, CO, October 18, 2014


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