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.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

I love Nature partly because she is not man . . .



"I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. he makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this."

Henry David Thoreau,
January 3, 1853





Today a snowshoe hike helped draw me outside myself in order to become fascinated by the larger world spread out all around me  :)

Photos: (Top and Middle) Bighorn Sheep rams, Big Thompson Canyon, CO; (Bottom) Moraine Park, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. All three photos were taken on February 18, 2015


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