John Keats has rightly said, "A thing is a joy forever." The beauty of nature can have a profound effect upon our senses, those gateways from the outer world to the inner, whether it results in disbelief in its very existence as Emerson notes or feelings such as awe, wonder or amazement. A beautiful thing touches the human heart more than anything else on earth. It elevates and ennobles the human soul. The experience of a thing of beauty is truly wonderful and unforgettable. According to William Wordsworth, "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." The really overwhelmed and excited by the sights and sounds of nature. Nature offers and presents itself to us in it its varied aspects and shapes. We have the glorious rising and setting sun, the murmuring rivers and rivulets, the twinkling stars bedecking the sky, the silvery moon sending down glorious moon beams of dazzling diamond. We have also the green lovely hills, the snow-capped and snow-clad mountains. The roaring waves ever touching and dashing against the sea-shore always attract thousands of tourists. Some also try to find beauties and charms in the dazzling flashes of lighting, roars and rumbling of thunder and torrential rain, sweeping and violent storm. The lover of nature can enjoy its sights and sounds in abundant measure in the floating flowers, singing birds, cool breeze, humming bees and delicious fruits. There is thus an emotional or effective component in the beauty of the intellect just as there is in the immediate beauty of the perception. If we destroy the natural world, we take away the things that we can marvel at and experience awe towards in these two ways. We can find an objective basis for goodness and beauty in nature, namely its intelligible structure, but also see that nature is valuable and beautiful for us, with the particular apparatus that nature has given us for navigating our way through the world. One's heart leaps up when one beholds a rainbow in the sky after or amidst rain. Man's love of nature provides him pleasure, makes him pure and soft in heart and above all elevates his soul.
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