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NATURE FOR ITS OWN SAKE 
The look 
upward. 
The clouds 
and sky. 
heights are forever looking down. If they 
would only look wp they might see two features 
that are the better for being seen frem 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, 
