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!

If you'd like to purchase photo-quote greeting cards, please go to www.NaturePhoto-QuoteCards.com .


In the Spirit of Wildness,

Stephen Hatch
Fort Collins, Colorado

P.S. There's a label index at the bottom of the blog.

Friday, July 17, 2015

A thing is beautiful when it has a cosmic quality . . .


"The new virtue which constitutes a thing beautiful is a certain cosmical quality, or a power to suggest relation to the whole world and so lift the object out of a pitiful individuality. Every natural feature - sea, sky, rainbow, flowers, musical tone - has in it something which is not private but universal, . . . and is therefore beautiful . . . The feat of the imagination is in showing the convertibility of every thing into every other thing."

Ralph Waldo Emerson 




Photos: (Top) Paintbrush and The Grand Teton; (Middle) Marsh-Marigolds, The Grand and Middle Tetons; (Bottom) Mist near my backcountry campsite. All three photos were taken in Grand Teton National Park, WY, on July 4-6, 2015


No comments:

Post a Comment