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How to enjoy the beauty of nature?
What are the factors that affect the beauty of nature?
How to preserve the beauty of nature?
As someone whose done their fair share of camping and fishing for whatever reason I've always struggled to capture the beauty or perhaps 'feeling' of being in nature or the various sensations of being in the wilderness while not entirely derailing a scene with its descriptors. If anyone has any good examples or pointers I'd be appreciative!
I am a very romantic or emblematic writer, so this may not apply if you tend to be a straightforward type.
How does it affects all of the senses. The taste of the air by a stormy sea will be different from the crisp, dewy air on a mountain or in the woods. What is the first sense or thing the subject would notice? What lingers as they keep walking through? What emotional sense is brought forth? What emotions or senses can you personally recall from a similar scene experienced? I typically will spend a long time finding the right verbs, adjectives, colors, etc. to capture exactly what I picture. For example, I wrote a scene of a man walking in a crowd and chose “enveloped” by the crowd instead of surrounded. I felt it added a flare matching the mood of the character and his intent.
I believe the focus of a scene captures the beauty of nature.
What I mean by focus is that I tend to think of everything in cinematic camera shots.
When showing the beauty of nature, it could be a close up shot on something as simple as a butterfly landing on a blade of grass, only to flutter into a spiders webs.
That can also act as a juxtaposition for characters, like a pure character falling into a trap or scheme of an evil character.
It makes it all the more beautiful if you start and end with the focus on the butterfly, showing what happens to it, foreshadowing what's next for the characters.
So long as you move with purpose, and everything serves multiple functions, you can tug at heart strings when describing the tiny things in nature.