When going to the mountains, one should take time to feel them drawing near.

They are never intimate with those who hurry.

Mere sight-seers seldom see much of anything.

If possible,"-- insisted the speaker, smiling gravely upon his companion,--"one should always spend, at least, a full day in the approach.

Before entering the immediate presence of the hills, one should first view them from a distance, seeing them from base to peak--in the glory of the day's beginning, as they watch the world awake; in the majesty of full noon, as they maintain their calm above the turmoil of the day's doing; and in the glory of the sun's departure, as it lights last their crests and peaks.