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, October 20, 2014

Vocation to Solitude - To entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills . . .


"Vocation to Solitude - To deliver oneself up, to hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and hills . . .



"This is a true and special vocation.  There are few who are willing to belong completely to such silence, to let it soak into their bones, to breathe nothing but silence, to feed on silence, . . .




"and to turn the very substance of their life into a living and vigilant silence."

Thomas Merton


Photos: (Top) Cottonwood tree and cliffs, Poudre Canyon, near Fort Collins, CO, October 13, 2014; (Second) Aspen trees, Poudre Canyon, CO, October 13, 2014; (Third) Wild Geranium leaf and cascade on Cow Creek, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, October 17, 2014; (Bottom) Sunset at Vedauwoo Recreation Area, Medicine Bow National Forest, WY, October 14, 2014

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