Beauty of Nature
The word ‘nature’ means the universe with all its phenomena; and in the common sense refers to the essences unchanged by man. Nature includes the general realm of various types of living plants and animals, and the processes associated with inanimate objects — the way that particular type of things exist and change of their own accord, such as the weather and geology of the Earth, and the matter and energy of which all these things are composed of.
The word ‘beauty’ conjures up various meanings with the main one ‘an appearance or a feel or a sound which gives pleasure to the sight or aesthetic pleasure generally’.
Beauty in nature has long been a common theme in life and in art. The nature, depicted and celebrated by so much art, photography, poetry and other literature, shows the strength with which people associate nature and beauty. Scientists, who study nature in more specific and organized ways, share the conviction that nature is beautiful; they study the nature because they delight in its beauty. Nature is beautiful; so it is worth knowing, and hence worth living. The beauty in nature is that the perfect is implied through symmetry, equal division and other perfect mathematical forms and notions. There is so much beauty all around to behold, to touch and to hear Nature is so miraculous because it is not static but is ever changing No matter how many times one looks at something, it is always different. Nature can set a sky aflame at sunset or magically transform a familiar landscape into a snow-white wonderland or paint a rainbow in the sky, paint beautiful autumn colours on trees, or paint a clump of daffodils in the grass with glow of soft sunlight.
Nature is responsible for the sun, clouds, rain and snow. When it is sunny and bright outside, one feels cheerful inside; when it is cloudy and rainy, one often feels gloomy: and on a starry night, the moonlight makes one feel light and romantic. The leaves budding on a tree, the timid flower pushing through the frozen ground, freshness of the spring, the singing birds, the colourful butterflies, the buzzing insects, the welcome sunrise, the gentle breeze, the magnificent mountains, the splendour of seas, the twinkling stars and cool moon at night, the earth renewing its beauty at each season of the year, the roaring waterfalls, the lively plants and animals are all wonderful and astonishing, and truly reflect the wisdom and beauty of nature. The sky is sometimes immensely blue, white silvery clouds glide almost imperceptibly against it; the clouds are never the same as they change their shapes continuously making the sight just beautiful to gaze at. Sometimes when the sky turns black with thick heavy clouds, a distant curtain of falling rain can be seen; it appears as though some unseen hand is pouring water onto the land to nourish it: the sight is beautiful and makes one feel closer to the beauty of the nature.
One can enjoy the beauty of nature when one sees it, hears it, and feels it silently. Beauty is the mark God set upon virtue. Every natural action is graceful and splendid. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind; and not for barren contemplation but for new creation the nature’s beauty is so simple and undemanding that the humans often fail to perceive it. Modern man is deluged with artificial things that cut out his awareness of nature.
God, as the divine artist, has created beautiful nature to live in and enjoy it. Indeed it is to be felt and taken within.
