My distance learning course is proving irksome. The philosophers sharing their thoughts on aesthetics, Walton, Sibley, Mothersill and Carlson, are annoyingly long-winded. Can we make aesthetic judgements about nature in the same way we judge works of art? Thousands of words later it would seem not.

RUA exhibition at the Ulster Museum

Do we need different adjectives for natural beauty or can our perception of mountains, seascapes and the like be sublime, magnificent and picturesque?