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, March 2, 2015

Dissolved, yet affirmed in beauty.


"With inexpressible delight you wade out into the landscape, feeling yourself contained in one of Nature's most sacred chambers, secure from yourself - and your hard, restricting shell of individuality is at once dissolved - free in the universal beauty, as when you gaze into the vistas of a sunset . . .




"And you seem dissolved in it, yet everything about you is beating with warm, terrestrial, human love and life delightfully substantial and familiar."

The Contemplative John Muir 




Photos: Snowy Range, WY, August 24, 2014

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