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#1
03-25-2008, 01:16 PM
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Why are all natural phenomena beautiful?
You've got the aurora borealis, rainbows, lunar eclipses, sunsets and sunrises... Sure, we can explain all of them scientifically, but that doesn't satisfy the question as to why there are no ugly phenomena in nature.
Actually, in immediate reflection, it's interesting that all of my examples have to do with light. 
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03-25-2008, 01:25 PM
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Hurricanes are beautiful, too. Scary, but beautiful.
I don't know that all natural phenomena are beautiful, though. Decomposition, for example, can be pretty disgusting.
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03-25-2008, 01:28 PM
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There are plenty of ugly things in nature. Animal fecese, birth defects, being eaten alive, etc.
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#4
03-25-2008, 01:41 PM
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How about leprosy?
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#5
03-25-2008, 01:42 PM
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What is beautiful about the natural world tends to involve the Sun and light, as OP intuited himself. Wild nature and animals don't have any reality for me, good, bad or indifferent - and they are paradoxically beautiful and ugly. Might seem an odd thing to say, but... "It's like a finger pointing away to the Moon, don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory..." -- Bruce Lee.
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03-25-2008, 04:10 PM
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I hate to be the one to say this because it is such a cliché, but it is true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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#7
03-26-2008, 03:15 PM
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Let me know when you find someone who says that the aurora borealis is ugly.
But I do agree that there are a lot of things that repulse us in nature, although I'm not so sure that they should. For example, we find certain animals disgusting, but there is a beauty in understanding when it comes to biology. Anyways, like it's been pointed out, I was referring more to phenomena, not nature itself.
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03-26-2008, 09:31 PM
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In some things, like green pastures and blue skies there seem to me to be stick on explanations in evolutionary biology. Why things like snowflakes, nebulae, meteor showers etc strike many of us as beautiful doesn't appear to be as obvious.
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03-27-2008, 04:38 PM
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the spectrum of light has always fasinated mankind (just think of fasion), nature looks nice because it has a wide of range of colours in them(try find a spot in nature that is just 1 colour), humans aren't even able to see all of them.
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03-30-2008, 07:03 AM
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