Would nature be beautiful if we were not here to see it?

[jberryhill]

[rrneck]

1. No.

It would be just what it is. We are the arbiters of beauty because beauty only matters to is.

[Downwinder]

2. Is Nature beautiful?

Or do we just find beauty in it?

[rocktivity]

3. No, because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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However, falling trees DO make a noise whether someone hears it or not.


rocktivity

[bjobotts]

7. Yeah, they always fall on

...on the rock God created that is so big God himself could not lift it...just after God committed suicide right.

There is only God...all else is the illusion of mind or ego...the separation identity.

[silverweb]

4. Are we the only arbiters of beauty?

[font color="teal" face="Verdana"]Do we know for sure that there are no other sentient beings able to see and appreciate what is beauty to them?

[Shankapotomus]

5. Yes because

Everything is beautiful by nature.

[bjobotts]

6. It is not seperate from you

It is only separate from your identity...the separation identity...separation from the source which both contains and sustains it. There is only God...but the ego always thinks it's 'Me' and God. Nature is part of the world of forms. Ask a blind man how beautiful nature is. The ego explores the forms it creates but they are not real for there is only God and the last desire should be to have no more desires and just be one with the source or god. Such a long way to travel for a place so close.

[jberryhill]

8. We are nature looking at itself

[htuttle]

9. My cats like to look outside, too

[defacto7]

10. Are we so special that beauty exists only if we are present to precieve beauty?

Beauty is a concept. Nature could be beautiful to itself or not.

Nature is. That's all.