What is the relation between beauty and environment ?

Answer 1

I can't help but wonder if you're intending to mean "How does a persons environment affect how beautiful they are" or "What in the environment is beautiful?" so I'll give my thoughts on both in one statement:

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

Given there are traits in human beings and environmental surroundings that are generally accepted to be more or less desireable (a.k.a. "beautiful"), there is still the matter of the individual perceiving it. What I may consider beautiful may in fact be considered hideous to the next person.

But, to expand on the beauty of a human being as impacted by the environment, simply take a small step back and look at the big picture: People in colder climates may have thicker skin or larger fat reserves to help insulate the body. People from a wealthier society will likely be more "Hollywood skinny" vs. someone from a disease-riddled one, where they are "malnourished skinny" (if not with their bloated stomach, the stage of malnutrition near death).

What people have around them both in nature and in society/economically will have a huge part in determining their physical appearance.

But as I said; it's up to the individual to determine what they find to be "beautiful"; and perhaps the environment you grew up in had a huge influence on that, as well. If you were constantly surrounded by craggy mountains, cliffs and volcanoes, you might actually think a large forest was ugly; if you grew up in a tribe where putting huge clay discs in holes in your lips/ears was the norm (and were told all your life how beautiful this was), you might find your run-of-the-mill Joe American to be hideous.

Dare I end this by saying "It's what's on the inside that is beautiful"? :-)

Answer 2

We have evolved to survive in a natural environment, and we recognise such an environment, in part, by a quality we term "beauty". A beutiful environment useually means food, fuel & shelter, eg woodland, or animals grazing in fields. flowers = food in the making
Baby creatures are beutiful so we care for them; we see our Earth as beautiful so we care for it, so it in turn can care for us.

There is also an aspect of awe (beauty is not just "cute") in great nature that can help us feel connected to larger purpose and timelessness and immortality, eg mountains and deserts, seasons ...

Environment destroying things tend to be ugly eg open cast mines, clear-cut forest, 4x4s (and their owners make them uglier by sticking on odd bits of pipe and blacking out the windows)

Answer 3

The environment (trees, rivers, mountains, sky, etc) is beauty if you know how to look at it and how to appreciate it. Most people cannot

Answer 4

Both have the capacity to overwhelm :)