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.

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Approach each thing as strange and new for the thousandth time!


"To conceive of any natural object with a total apprehension, I must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange . . . You must be aware that no thing is what you have taken it to be."

Henry David Thoreau




This is precisely what the Yellowstone landscape enables us to do. Its otherworldly aura opens up a fresh faculty of perception that then helps us look at the mundane features of our daily lives in a similar manner.





Photos: (Top) Fishing Cone just off the shore of Yellowstone Lake, West Thumb Geyser Basin; (Middle) Grand Prismatic Spring; (Bottom) Hot spring pools in Norris Geyser Basin. All three photos were taken in Yellowstone National Park, WY, on September 5-7, 2015

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