One dimension of aesthetic appreciation of environments is interpretation. The aesthetic
response to natural and cultural landscapes involves an exploration of aesthetic qualities …

Philosophers of aesthetics have tended to limit their subject to include only objects of art. In
contrast to art objects, landscape include elements of both art and nature. In this article, I …

When asked to describe a beautiful landscape, many people, designers included, have an
idealized setting in mind. They might describe pristine landscapes found typically on …

Within philosophy, a new interest in aesthetics beyond the arts has encouraged the rapid
growth of environmental aesthetics. Within this literature, however, less attention has been …

The roots of environmental aesthetics reach back to the ideas of eighteenth-century thinkers
who found nature an ideal source of aesthetic experience. Today, having blossomed into a …

There are some interesting connections between epistemological issues concerning
geography and the main interests of environmental aesthetics. Environmental aesthetics has …

The Aesthetics of Natural Environments is a collection of essays investigating philosophical
and aesthetics issues that arise in our appreciation of natural environments. The introduction …

An ecological paradigm shift from the “balance of nature” to the “flux of nature” will change
the way we aesthetically appreciate nature if we adopt scientific cognitivism—the view that …

Aesthetic appreciation of landscape is by no means limited to the sensuous enjoyment of
sights and sounds. It very often has a reflective, cognitive element as well. This sometimes …

Since aesthetic experience is vital for the protection of nature, I address the relationship
between environmental aesthetics and environmentalism. I first review two traditional …