We believe that the landscape is important for our well-being: we look for places whose view gives the sense of harmony, vivacity or singularity (and what is harmonious is not hostile, what is lively is cheerful, what is singular prefigure new and therefore interesting things); instead we flee the places whose view gives the sense of disorder, of flatness, of predictability. A balanced and orderly landscape produces calm, psychic security and aesthetic enjoyment; a disordered landscape or with elements of random dissonance produces discomfort. The dissonances and the varieties can produce a beautiful landscape, provided they are not trivial and free
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