Russian olive making an arc against gravity. Turkey vulture making an arc against gravity.

Human trail, making an arc around gravity at Palouse Falls. Red Osier Dogwood using a ladder of carbon to climb out of the well of gravity.

Human spiritual symbol, defying gravity, French Prairie, St. Paul, Oregon.

The primary human habitat: over water, from a height; a separation from gravity.

Human art, defying gravity (gravitas) by lifting matter into the spiritual realm of height seen in the previous image (Caetani House, Vernon, British Columbia.)

This is how this human attribute is viewed in the “natural” world.

None of these are the natural world. They are all artifice. The world is not in a photograph, a word or a concept. It can only be inferred, but, of course, what is inferred is us. The space where gravity is not.