How to improve the landscape in MSU

College and University campuses are entrances for people to know about them. Campus environment changes everyday in both dramatical and inconspicuous way. In responding to such changes, college and university make minor and important, casual and formal, rational and irrational decisions to maintain a dynamic interaction in landscape on campus. Mississippi State University is famous for its strong sense of community and tradition. Its traditions arose from the intertwining of history and legend and are often evident in architecture form in the University's cultural landscape. However, with the development of modern college and university which are designed for ecological and educational propose, campus naturalistic or ecological culture is becoming a sort of culture in which human kind gets along well in harmony with the natural environment. 

In order to carrying out scientific outlook on development in an overall way and realizing interpersonal harmony of MSU campus, it is suitable to bring in naturalistic or ecological landscape design, which also can be helpful for intelligence development of university students, because when students access to a well-designed naturalistic landscape, it may stimulate the aesthetic appreciation of a student, and provide students a great experience of nature. From the construction perspective, MSU landscape environment is lacking of dynamic. For example, Starkville, where MSU located in, has a 5 inch precipitation each year. It is a good chance to create a ecological system to manage the large amount of water, people may know the importance of storm water collection and they may develop an awareness of water protection.

Naturalistic landscape is often mentioned with aesthetics, and aesthetic appreciation can differ from person to person. The most common discussion about naturalistic landscape areas are associated with appearance. The appearance of a landscape area is always what people would like to focus on, if emphasis   too much on appearance but ignoring the functional part, people may regard the design as a art form. That is why naturalistic education is needed, which gives people a better understanding of a certain area.