Full Idea
Hegel thinks that natural beauty is of no real significance since it cannot display our freedom to us; nature per se is meaningless.
Gist of Idea
Natural beauty is unimportant, because it doesn't show human freedom
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics [1826]) by Terry Pinkard - German Philosophy 1760-1860 11
Book Reference
Pinkard,Terry: 'German Philosophy 1760-1860' [CUP 2002], p.297
A Reaction
Presumably freedom is in the creation, and so creativity is what matters in aesthetics. But what are the criteria of good creativity?