Does aesthetic appreciation of landscapes need to be science based?
Date
1995
Authors
Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, author
Oxford University Press, publisher
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Abstract
Forests are aesthetically challenging because of a perennial, dynamic sense of deep time, experiencing an archetype of creation. Scientific appreciation of natural history is necessary though not sufficient for an intense, multisensory, participatory engagement when persons, immersed in forests, constitute their lived aesthetic experiences. Forests are sublime, evoking the sense of the sacred. Aesthetic appreciation in forests radically differs from that appropriate for artworks.
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Address at "Meeting in the Landscape," the First International Conference on Environmental Aesthetics," Koli, Finland, June 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-386).
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Subject
response to nature
environment
landscapes
natural history
theology
aesthetics