Being in the heart of New York City, Central Park is clearly far more influenced by the presence of humans than Black Rock Forest is. The park is very accommodating towards humans in many senses, especially with regards to safety and recreation. There were a lot of methods for containing nature evident in Central Park, such as the great rock walls that enclose the entire rectangular structure, as well as the metal railings that fence in the grass, and the manicured stone surrounding the lake that keeps its waters well contained and defined. There were visible signs of trees having had some of their branches labeled excessive and consequently chopped off for the sake of reducing, what I can only imagine to be, “natural congestion.” This observation shows that mankind intended the Park’s function and aesthetic to be more considerate of humans’ needs and desires. The effect humans have had on Black Rock Forest is much less impacting, as it is not as contained or restricted. It is a much lesser disturbed form of nature, one that accommodates humans in a much milder degree, as does Central Park. In Black Rock Forest, the rocks and trees and life forms of the ecosystem rule over human visitors, not the other way around. Hiking through the woods, marks of a trail are barely present, and as a human I had to adapt to nature in order to get through. The forest had not been polished prior to my arrival in order to suit my needs. At most, there were traces of paint on some tree trunks and a lone, rusty metal sign. The sign had been drilled into a tree, whose trunk had then proceeded to grow in a manner that seemed to swallow it—retaliation against mankind’s attempt to disturb nature’s wild.