The Mildred E. Rossia Botanical Garden

The Mildred E. Mathias Botanical Garden here at UCLA provides visitors with a substantial amount of plant life. The garden contains plants from all over the world and from different environments. The presentation of this wild life gives visitors a sense of nature around the world but in deeper inspection one can see how unnatural this arrangement can be.
While visiting a place like botanical gardens, one mostly is conscious of the natural processes of plants and wildlife, it is almost as one is at a zoo for plants. However, most people fail to acknowledge that there is many unnatural things in these exhibitions. Many of these plants are not naturally arranged in the way they appear in the botanical garden out in their natural habitat. These plants naturally exist in very different areas out in the natural world and definitely never in the same area as their neighbors at the …show more content…
Again, this is another aspect that the average visitor can cease to be aware of. We are used to seeing infrastructure like sidewalks and walkways in our everyday lives so when we see them out in nature or in places like this that attempt to recreate nature we tend to think that it's just a natural part of the landscape. Also, the garden contains a pond that contain koi fish and turtles. Again, this is another human made element of the garden. The pond wasn't there naturally, but instead built and then later introduced animals. This is a very attractive place within the garden as many people like to look at the turtles. Unlike the plants however, there is barriers that impede visitors from touching the turtles. This is also another aspect that interrupts the natural element of the garden. Although it is understandable why they would implement these barriers to protect the animals, it also restricts the animals making this another human interaction with