Landscape

Personally I think that when you first look at a place its easy to appreciate its beauty from a picturesque point of view, whether its a forest with unkept wildlife that hasn't been maintained by anyone or a park created for the scenery. To have an appropriate aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment I don't think its enough. You just accept the scene for its face value, but until you have some understanding of it environmentally theres really no deep meaning. It seems in a way that what you absorb just by the sight of a place can be shallow, not completely meaningless but also not very meaningful. The more information you have of a place the more value it has, and a better general outlook for the way you begin to see things. To have some kind of link between you and you're environment through science or the history of a place I've learned can be a very important tool to use.