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, August 6, 2015

Yosemite might well be called a church . . .


"I have not been at church a single time since leaving home [nine years earlier]. Yet this glorious Yosemite Valley might well be called a church . . . No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life."

John Muir




Photos: (Top) Iron-stained glacier-polished granite at Lower Cathedral Lake, with Cathedral Peak in the background; (Middle) Cathedral Peak and Upper Cathedral Lake; (Bottom) Ferns and Vernal Falls. All three photos were taken in Yosemite National Park, CA on July 22 and 23, 2015


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