All 7 Uses of
aesthetic
in
Into the Wild
- Paul Shepard, Man in the Landscape: A HISTORIC VIEW OF THE ESTHETICS OF NATURE†
p. 25..8
- Esthetics as a parlor affectation is ludicrous and sometimes a little obscene; as a way of life it sometimes attains dignity.†
p. 87..8
- An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.†
p. 163..7
- And unbeknownst to the Aesthetic Voyager, scattered within a six-mile radius of the bus are four cabins (although none happened to be occupied during the summer of 1992).†
p. 165..6
- ...the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
p. 168..5 *aesthetic = appreciation of beautyunconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it esthetic.
- AN AESTHETIC VOYAGER WHOSE HOME IS THE ROAD…… Immediately below this manifesto squats the stove, fabricated from a rusty oil drum.†
p. 179..5
- [H]is life is so profoundly in transaction with nature that there is no place for abstraction or esthetics or a "nature philosophy" which can be separated from the rest of his life.†
p. 184..1
Definition:
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(aesthetic) related to beauty or good taste -- often referring to one's appreciation of beauty or one's sense of what is beautiful
or:
beautiful or tasteful