"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 think there can be many ways to appreciate nature. For example, let's use the fibonacci spiral. In nature, the fibonacci spiral appears in plants and shells. A person who appreciates math may not know what type of flower it is or care what colors it has in it, but they can certainly appreciate the placement of the petals and how it spirals in such a way. A person who has no knowledge of math, but of flowers in general can appreciate the flower for much more beyond that. I think this can happen in shades too. Like, if you know of fibonacci numbers and that they appear in nature but not much more beyond the math concept, you may appreciate a few shades lighter of what the mathematician feels.
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