Professor of Environmental Aesthetics at the University of Joensuu of Finland presents a paper on different forest types. Each of them is beautiful in a special way, whether it is a natural forest, forest park or cultural, i.e. cultivated forest that now is the ideal type of forest landscape. Also commercial forest, which main purpose is to produce wood material, has to fulfil also aesthetical criteria as well as criteria of quality. All forest types are, except of primary significance, important also from the viewpoint of landscape formation and conservation of its diversity. Also the traces of life can be visible in the forest, they need not be the signs of decline but for example of skilful and responsible management. The author finished his paper with the citation: "A landscape that looks good may not be good, and a landscape that is good may not look good."