[DancesWithBolsheviks]

“Gravity - it’s the law.”
Typical linear western way of thinking. Gaia is not pleased with your planetary stereotypes. Watch as I float out of this tree.

[Tenniel2]

"... laboring under the misapprehension that they're birds... Witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as plummet... They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perching."

(Do I really have to give the cite??) ((Hint: Python. Sheep.))