To legitimize their (sub)discipline,contemporary western scholars in the field of natural or environmental aesthetics have long advocated a theoretical stance featuring“multisensory integration”,in which they purposely downplay the once predominant role of visual and auditory perceptionsPlausible as it may first appear,this position in practice has demonstrated an alarming propensity to go to the other extreme,that is,to completely renounce the visual and auditory appreciationsThe “picturesque” theory for one has been criticized for its overreliance on formality and subjectivity,whereas those concerning auditory sensations have been censured for their lack of universalityFrom my perspective,however,formality and subjectivity reveal an essential dimension of natural beauty while a lack of universality may prove that such theories are highly potent in bringing imagination,concretion,metaphor,analogy,and atmospheric considerations to the fold of environmental aestheticsThus,as ontologically opposed to the prevalent “multisensory integration” model,this article proposes a “synaesthesia” theory featuring “the body without organs”,a concept used by French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari that focuses on both visual and auditory sensations