More on beauty.

Beauty may just be a state of mind. I suppose people here wouldn't take much interest to the standard highway scene of rolling hills and peaceful Shire-like countryside. But if you're looking for it, you will see it, no matter what it is what you're looking at. I can feel it looking at the Auckland skyline, at Cathedral Cove, at the blank yet raging Tasman Sea, at the corner of Queen St and Victoria St, in class, walking to a bar, everywhere. I suppose the scenery here possesses conventional beauty, which is what we commonly understand to be beautiful. Is it beautiful because it is unusual for us to see such sights? If it was common, would it still be beautiful? If we repeatedly interacted with these places, would it no longer be beautiful? Surely we Americans find the rural life as beautiful as someone from the rural area viewing the grand city of New York for the first time.

Well, I don't claim to know the answer. But I'm usually right, so I'm confident in how I look at things. :P