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, December 8, 2014

Canyon country has become an obsession with me, a passion!


"Drugged. I'm drugged, sense and mind, by desert thoughts, canyon thoughts. I've been thinking of the Colorado Plateau, the country around the Green and Colorado and San Juan Rivers . . . Thinking of those great canyons, and of the terrible and grand and unearthly wilderness of rock that surrounds them, my nerves and brain get taut and sharp and hot - I've GOT to go there, be there, live there: it's become an obsession with me, a passion! Those places, those names! . . ."

Edward Abbey 




Photos: (Top) Late-day light in the Needles District; (Middle) A shaft of sunlight penetrates The Joint; (Bottom) An artistic juniper snag, with the Needles in the background. All three photos were taken in Canyonlands National Park, UT, November 28, 2014


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