... Environmental Aesthetics, Koli, Finland, June 1994. British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 35, No. 4, October,1995. DOES AESTHETIC APPRECIATION OF LANDSCAPES NEED TO BE SCIENCE-BASED? Holmes Rolston, ... "line" of a mountain crest, woods, or prairie 376 AESTHETIC APPRECIATION OF LANDSCAPES SCIENCE-BASED? silhouetted against the sky is imaginary; it lies in the eye of the beholder. Landscapes need ... full story of natural history is too phenomenal, too spectacular, to be mere landscape; it is a sacrament of some-thing noumenal. Sensitive encounter with landscape discloses dimensions of depth....