ABSTRACT
In his Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Critique of the Power of Judgement, Immanuel Kant outlined a subjective approach to aesthetic satisfaction as a free process of the faculties and an opportunity for learning together. This chapter distinguishes the concepts of environment and nature. Environmental aesthetics aims to point up a new means of expressing the ecological emergency. Within the aesthetics of Nature it is necessary to consider the appreciation of nature – that is, the appreciation of spontaneous processes and their role in society. Formal approaches to landscape go against the idea that a landscape is simply a territory with aesthetic criteria or that it is the product of a process of 'artialization' in the sense of a backdrop with aesthetic value. It takes an aesthetic approach which, depending on its different forms, draws on ecological knowledge, imagination, emotion, and a new understanding of nature as a bearer of its own narrative.
