The term ‘aesthetics’ comes originally from the Greek ‘aesthenesthai’, to perceive, and ‘aistheta’, ‘things perceived’, in this case using our eyes. It is possible to develop a framework that sets out, in a logical structure, the various schools of aesthetics, so that they can be practically related to each other and used to support each other. The distant mode of viewing includes the sense that the observer is physically distant from the scene, and therefore cannot use senses except sight and possibly hearing, or ‘psychically distant’, where the observer is psychologically separated. Scenery and landscape aesthetics of this variety have a lot to offer and should not be undervalued, even though more recent trends have emphasized the other end of the spectrum, that of participation in the landscape. The psychology and to some extent physiology of perception have pointed to evidence that we seek out and try to understand our environment in terms of patterns.