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NATURE FOB ITS OWN SAKE 



The look 

 upward. 



The cloud* 

 and tky. 



heights are forever looking down. If they 

 would only look up they might see two features 

 that are the better for being seen from high 

 ground. I mean the sky and the clouds. The 

 whole firmament seems to expand ; and the 

 curve down and around the world, given by 

 the perspective of the clouds, is most impres- 

 sive in its sweep. And what intensity of 

 color in the violet-blue ! What wonderful 

 luminosity in the small, white cumulus and the 

 feathery cirrus clouds ! But this sky view is 

 the one that people seldom see. They climb 

 for the scenic view, which means a search for 

 familiar objects on the map below them. In 

 fact, it is more curiosity than a sense of beauty 

 that prompts the climbing ; for the most per- 

 fect landscape is seen from level ground, with 

 the great sky space overhead as a leading 

 feature. 



The mountains themselves are seen at their 

 best looking up from the valley. The view 

 expanding, peak on peak, until finally the top- 

 most spine is reached, is more complete than 

 when one stands on the top and looks over 

 snow-fields, down gorges and glaciers into the 

 valley. The very grandeur of mountains lies 

 in their height, mass, strength, and sky lines, 



