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.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

The virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality.



"The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality, or a power to suggest relation to the whole world, and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality.




"Every natural feature . . . has in it something which is not private, but universal, speaks of that central benefit which is the soul of Nature, and thereby is beautiful."

Ralph Waldo Emerson





Photos: (Top) Greyrock, field and Cottonwood, Bellvue, CO, October 23, 2014; (Middle) Cottonwoods and hills, Livermore, CO, October 13, 2014; (Bottom) Bellvue Dome, field, deer, and Cottonwoods, Bellvue, CO, October 15, 2014

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