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.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

By walking, you escape from the temptation to be someone.



"Walking can provoke abundances of beauty that turn the soul over, excesses of ecstasy on the peaks, the high passes (where the body explodes) . . . By walking you are not going to meet yourself.  By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and history . . . The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life."

Frederic Gros,
"A Philosophy of Walking"





Photos: Emerald Lake Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO, November 24, 2014



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