What does serene beauty mean?

What does this Victor Hugo quote mean? "What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain"?

• What does this Victor Hugo quote mean? "What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain"

• Answer:

  I think it means that what some might consider ugly would be considered beautiful somewhere else. Some people may seem out-of-place in certain situations, but may fit in perfectly somewhere else. The environment ultimately justifies the objective 'beauty' of an object or a person. I'm not 100% sure about the other one, but I'll try. I think it might be trying to say that complex things ('grand') are usually under-appreciated because they are too difficult to understand at first glance. "Mediocrity and hills" are easy to appreciate, but a "genius" or a "mountain", not so much until you really look into it. Hope this helped.