or the mundane and the ugly can be an escape from beauty. it is a matter of perspective. all it takes is a slight shift in the angle from which one looks at this world, and one suddenly realizes that beauty is everywhere, behind every corner - in a crack in the wall, a bud on the branch of a shrub, the shadows that fall onto the tarmac from the trees and move with each gust of wind. there is this joy that grips one to the marrow of one's bones, makes one grow cold and sends chills down one's spine. it jumps at one and assaults one. there is something about it that is akin to rape. what we call "ordinary" or "mundane" could well be a a way to shield ourselves from this. i don't think humans were meant to stand it - not every minute, second and nanosecond of our waking lives.
besides, beauty, or the dichotomy between the beautiful and the ugly, is a purely human construct. it only applies to the world we have created around ourselves, because we were the ones to design and construct it, and so we have a right to judge it by our own standards. when it comes to the larger world created by god, as the great artist whom no human genius can match, we can no longer use these concepts in the same manner. either everything in that world is beautiful, seeing that it was made out of love and carries god's own spark inside, or it is neither "beautiful" nor "ugly". it just IS. it exists on its own, for its own sake, independently of ourselves. and its value has nothing to do with what we find aesthetically pleasing or not.
i do find green living beings beautiful. but the same goes for non-green living beings too - and i guess there are many people out there who are less fond of nature and don't feel quite that way.