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, February 17, 2015

This is my boast: that I have no school followers.



"I have been writing and speaking for twenty-five or thirty years, and have not now one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not that it has not found intelligent receivers; but because it did not go forth from any wish in me to bring people to me, but rather to themselves. I delight in driving them from me. What could I do, if they came to me? . . . This is my boast: that I have no school followers. I would account it a measure of the impurity of my insight if it did not create independence."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1858

Photo: A horse grazes in the field across the street from my house, Larimer County, CO, February 16, 2015

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