Try getting along without it. As my late partner asked her 2nd graders; "what is more important people or dirt?"

I have also found those living in areas where they need to control nature in order to live don't seem to appreciate. Some of us who live in areas where nature is all around us and touches the senses want to preserve it not just for ourselves but our progeny as well.

Nature is way more than a bunch of random events IMO, for example, natural laws are not random events. The fact that anything exists is mind boggling, and you are right. We don’t understand nature. We are in the dark as to the nature of conscious awareness, and besides that we don’t even understand the meaning of the word exist. It follows that we don’t know what we ourselves are.

I think the reason we see beauty in nature is that we are conscious awareness itself, and that love for reality is an expression of that awareness. Nature, in its ultimate aspect, might be subjective.

We are looking at ourselves and we like what we see.

We are evolved animals, who evolved to live in nature and therefore to understand which bits are good for us and which bits are not.

So is our aesthetic appreciation part of nature’s process or do we view from a distance so to speak. Does nature ‘do’ something to us? i.e. we are passive to nature’s active.

We are part of nature. It is our home. Not hard to see beauty in that!

Probably because for some reason we were geared to see patterns and meaning in things.