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.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Solitude teaches us to find perfect fullness in silence, poverty and emptiness.



"The vocation to solitude is at the same time a vocation to silence, poverty and emptiness. But the emptiness is for the sake of fullness: the purpose of the solitary life. The contemplation of the solitary is the awareness of the divine mercy transforming and elevating one's own emptiness and turning it into the presence of perfect love, perfect fullness."

Thomas Merton 




Photos: (Top) Dwarf Mistletoe on a burnt log, with Greyrock in the background; (Middle) Rocks and snags; (Bottom).Burned tree with Greyrock. All three photos were taken in the High Park Burn, CO, February 7, 2015


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