Allen Carlson had the philosophy that everything has beauty in its own way. A bench in front of a "picturesque" lake, the way the tress outline a body of water, of the glow of a trail during a crisp, dry season. I consider the scenery, as Carlson puts it, graceful, delicate, intense, unified, and orderly. Any person with a mildly aesthetic eye would never consider this lake and the trails and tress that surround it bland, dull, insipid, incoherent, or remotely chaotic. The scenery is full of positive aesthetics and negativity has no place in it. I feel "vigin nature" has is aesthetically good because it has not been touched by the destructive ways of man. The particular land in the photos were only "brushed up" by man, but the beauty and the nature are not synthetic; the land has just been maintained. The trails and the benches are only little spots of land on a small map that is the nature of this area. Trails and benches are placed in areas to allow one to enjoy the beauty around them, positively.
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