perience or a more helpful test for living than 

 any examination or the writing of a thesis. 



Scenery, like music, is thought-compelling 

 and gives one a rare combination of practical 

 and poetical inspiration. Along with moun- 

 tain-climbing, scenery shakes us free from our- 

 selves and the world. From new grand heights 

 one often has the strange feeling that he has 

 looked upon these wondrous scenes before; and 

 on the crest one realizes the full meaning of 

 John Muir's exhortation to "climb the moun- 

 tains and get their good tidings!" 



