Allen Carlson quotes Hepburn in saying that people who have the wrong sort of education or aren't in the right mindset to appreciate nature will either pay little heed to it or will look at it "the wrong way". Carlson seems to imply that for each setting there is a "right" mindset to have and way to view the landscape/ flower/ summer afternoon.
Is this true? Or is it possible that there are multiple "right" ways to view a natural environment? Or is there no "right" way and perhaps only shades of appreciation?
I do not feel this is true at all and I think that all theories of how to appreciate nature are incorrect because they are all subjective. This subjectivity is relatable to any other form of opinion-based ideas about art, literature, and music, but with those three, there can be evidence, albeit human-based, to prove or disprove a subjective argument and make it more factually based. Therefore, on the turn side, all views on nature are correct even though not each one is individually correct. Every mindset of viewing nature is correct because if one creates a certain way of viewing nature, then one is creating an "ought." For example, if one's mindset is that nature should and will look best in flames, that is an "ought," one which many people would disagree with.
Thus, overall, there is no correct way to view a natural environment except one's own way in which one would suffer the delusion that one is correct.
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