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Nature is just so insanely beautifull that its hard to come up with something even nicer without seeing it. I actually think that if theres life on other planets then earth is among the more beautiful ones because it is subjectively beautiful to us. Yes mountains and rainforests are beautiful, siberia and the chinese planes, but so is the sahara and especially the places we come from. Im from hungary, one of the more boring parts of europe based on nature if you actually look at it objectively but every time i go back i feel a connection to it. Think this is one of the reasons scifi doesnt work for me. The real cultures and nature and everything else we have on this beautiful planet is more than enough for me and nothing pains my heart more than when these places and peoples are distroyed and restricted. When i watch scifi, its kind of an escapism for me to see those very motifs that make us special but in a better light. But yeah i think we struggle to create something more beautiful than what we are basically coded to find as the most beautiful.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And in case of a whole alien species, by pure probability, they would likely be used to a red sky and black plants (red dwarfs (more infrared) being the most numerous among the stable stars). Or even find a free sky horrendous and feel similar about rolling green hills like we feel about Nausicaa's fungal forests.
But Avatar (the Pandora one) did a good job at imagining a different but similiar kind of nature.