Bellus Natura
“Bellus Natura"
I have come a long way from the beginning of this aesthetics class to where I am now. When I first started this class, I had no recollection concerning the discovery of beauty, active response to beauty, or environmental beauty, in general. I truly started to engage in environmental aesthetics in the second week of classes. It was hard for me to interpret this class because I had no prior knowledge of aesthetics. When you have a truly passionate professor who is very knowledgeable, it makes the class easier to understand because you can ask any question and it will be answered properly. It truly started to sink in about the second week of classes. I started to remember the readings and what we discussed in class about Muir and how engaged he was about seeing the beauty in nature. It was hard for me to start with finding beauty, I felt like I was trying so hard to find beauty, but once I stopped trying to find beauty is when I actually became engaged with nature. As I was writing my daily journals, little things kept becoming clearer and I could tell I was getting more involved with beauty. Once you rewrite over and over in your journals, it starts to make sense. After the fourth week I was feeling good about being involved in nature, I could start to recognize what beauty was. I could walk to class or even just sit outside my apartment and take in everything that was happening around me and make the best out of it. Being engaged in nature has led me up to this point. After six weeks into aesthetics, I feel so much more involved with nature. It is almost like I feel comfortable with it now. I feel like nature accepts me for who I am. Sometimes we take that for granted and do not appreciate it. I am fully engaged with what nature has to offer me, and I am willing to take that. I haven’t stopped being engaged in nature as I am always aware of what is around me and I am willing to take it in and make in my own experience. The John Muir guide
I have come a long way from the beginning of this aesthetics class to where I am now. When I first started this class, I had no recollection concerning the discovery of beauty, active response to beauty, or environmental beauty, in general. I truly started to engage in environmental aesthetics in the second week of classes. It was hard for me to interpret this class because I had no prior knowledge of aesthetics. When you have a truly passionate professor who is very knowledgeable, it makes the class easier to understand because you can ask any question and it will be answered properly. It truly started to sink in about the second week of classes. I started to remember the readings and what we discussed in class about Muir and how engaged he was about seeing the beauty in nature. It was hard for me to start with finding beauty, I felt like I was trying so hard to find beauty, but once I stopped trying to find beauty is when I actually became engaged with nature. As I was writing my daily journals, little things kept becoming clearer and I could tell I was getting more involved with beauty. Once you rewrite over and over in your journals, it starts to make sense. After the fourth week I was feeling good about being involved in nature, I could start to recognize what beauty was. I could walk to class or even just sit outside my apartment and take in everything that was happening around me and make the best out of it. Being engaged in nature has led me up to this point. After six weeks into aesthetics, I feel so much more involved with nature. It is almost like I feel comfortable with it now. I feel like nature accepts me for who I am. Sometimes we take that for granted and do not appreciate it. I am fully engaged with what nature has to offer me, and I am willing to take that. I haven’t stopped being engaged in nature as I am always aware of what is around me and I am willing to take it in and make in my own experience. The John Muir guide