Why Nature Seems So Beautiful (and People Don’t)

Why is nature so beautiful and people are the opposite? A recent study published in the journal, Science Advances, discussed findings that living near plants for long enough can extend people’s life spans by 2.5 years. Indeed, we are parts of nature that consist of the still, vegetative, animate, and human levels, and their interconnection leads us to bear witness to such phenomena. The question is whether people can soothe and calm other people’s lives similarly to how plants can do so? We can, and even more so. Whether we feel people around us as aggravating or as calming depends on the extent to which we view them as important and close. Thus, we must urge ourselves to change so that other people feel closer and closer to us. And on this point, we indeed encounter the question: Why does nature seem so beautiful while people seem the opposite? It is because our ego, the desire to enjoy at the expense of others, rejects the egoistic nature of other people. We like plants, for inst