Pleasing Scenery
Pleasing scenery is the positive mental effect you feel when you see lush or verdant scenes.
You enjoy pleasing scenery when you look at landscapes of trees, vegetation, water and open spaces.
You enjoy pleasing scenery when you look at landscapes of trees, vegetation, water and open spaces.
Pleasing scenery and excitement are different emotions.
Pleasing scenery and excitement are both positive emotions you feel when you look at scenery. While you feel pleasing scenery when looking at lush scenes, you feel excitement when looking at novel scenes. A familiar riverside scene makes you feel pleasing scenery, but not excitement. An unfamiliar desert scene makes you feel excitement, but not pleasing scenery. You can feel both pleasing scenery and excitement if you see a scene that is both lush and novel.
Pleasing scenery is relatively weak.
Pleasing scenery is weak compared to emotions like pride or love. However, its influence is evident in the real estate premiums we pay for good views of parks or the trouble we go to grow plants indoors.
Pleasing scenery is the only positive emotion without a drawback.
With the exception of pleasing scenery, all positive emotions have at least one drawback. Affection requires coordination with other people. The romantic and family emotions do not last. Pride requires rank increases. Humor requires new stories. Sex requires partners and risk. Excitement requires finding new scenery. Pleasing tastes can lead to obesity.
Pleasing scenery is one way of making yourself happy you may not have considered explicitly.
Pleasing scenery by itself will not make you satisfactorily happy. However, it can make a significant contribution if you actively seek it. You can, for example, make a point of living or exercising near lush scenery. Pleasing scenery can also be useful for dieters. They can replace the loss of pleasing taste with more pleasing scenery.
Pleasing scenery and excitement are both positive emotions you feel when you look at scenery. While you feel pleasing scenery when looking at lush scenes, you feel excitement when looking at novel scenes. A familiar riverside scene makes you feel pleasing scenery, but not excitement. An unfamiliar desert scene makes you feel excitement, but not pleasing scenery. You can feel both pleasing scenery and excitement if you see a scene that is both lush and novel.
Pleasing scenery is relatively weak.
Pleasing scenery is weak compared to emotions like pride or love. However, its influence is evident in the real estate premiums we pay for good views of parks or the trouble we go to grow plants indoors.
Pleasing scenery is the only positive emotion without a drawback.
With the exception of pleasing scenery, all positive emotions have at least one drawback. Affection requires coordination with other people. The romantic and family emotions do not last. Pride requires rank increases. Humor requires new stories. Sex requires partners and risk. Excitement requires finding new scenery. Pleasing tastes can lead to obesity.
Pleasing scenery is one way of making yourself happy you may not have considered explicitly.
Pleasing scenery by itself will not make you satisfactorily happy. However, it can make a significant contribution if you actively seek it. You can, for example, make a point of living or exercising near lush scenery. Pleasing scenery can also be useful for dieters. They can replace the loss of pleasing taste with more pleasing scenery.
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