The early examples of forest aesthetics raises questions concerning both the relation between forests and human foresters and the complex relations between the disciplines forestry and art. Nowadays, forestry is often assigned to the natural sciences, although the discipline is based on various fields of knowledge ranging from mathematics, botany, chemistry, soil science, earth system science to economics, law, and history. In fact, the case of forest aesthetics directs attention to the founding period of academic forestry - and more specifically to the presence of artists at 19th century forest academies and to discussions about the introduction of lessons in aesthetics.