If beauty were composed by observers, identical landscapes would be equally beautiful to all perceivers, yet systematic cross-cultural aesthetic responses to nature suggest objective aesthetic features.

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Composed by observers(describing one theory of how beauty works): Created or invented by the people who are looking at something, rather than existing independently in the thing itself.
Objective aesthetic features(as the conclusion the statement is suggesting): Qualities of beauty that exist in the object itself and don't depend on what any particular person thinks—similar to how an object's weight exists whether or not anyone measures it.
Perceivers(in philosophy of perception): People or beings who experience or sense things through their senses (sight, sound, touch, etc.).
Subjectivity vs. objectivity (implied)(as the core debate in the statement about whether beauty is real or invented by minds): Subjectivity means something depends on personal opinion or feelings; objectivity means something exists independently of what anyone thinks about it.

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