Why do we find a flower beautiful? There are so many avenues in which we could explore for the answer to this question.

The Sociologist might say that a flower has been culturally associated with beauty. For example, the image of Venus has always been represented with being surrounded with flowers. It is a representation of the nature of cycles. Birth, death and rebirth all at once. Therefore, because society has always accepted the beauty of flowers, so would the individual.

The Psychologist might say that the flower has been conditioned to represent beauty. A flower as a gift has brought the reward of perhaps positive verbal reinforcement, and therefore we process the idea that perhaps there is something beautiful or right about the flower to warrant a positive response from its presentation.

The Philosopher might say that the answer is simple. The flower is beautiful because it engages and participates in the principle and idea of beauty. Just as how numbers participate in the idea of logic. This underlying principle is manifested in such forms, abstract or emperical.

The Biologist might say that a flower is beautiful because the presence of a flowers elicits the secretion of hormones which induce a certain state in the individual. Perhaps through sight, or smell, the chemical responses create a postive biological experience.

The Mathematician might say that the flower is beautiful because only a beautiful and meaningful object would be presented as a gift between lovers. Therefore, it would only be logical that since a friendship or romantic relationship produces the exchange of such gifts as a flower, that the flower must be beautiful.

The Renaissance Artist might state the the flower is by nature itself a beautiful object. It has a natural symmetry that runs through the center, it's structure is in complete and harmonious proportions to its different components, and the colors are represented in such a way that evokes the deepest of emotions.