ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how various environmental writers cope with this premise as life-forms meander and cling through the leading lines of the land. It applies the idea of least action as it works through the law of gravity, where matter flows, tumbles, and distributes as a trickle-down energy in meandering paths of least action from the highest point of land, like a stone rolling and bouncing down an irregular hillside in a stream. The chapter focuses on the biomechanics of walking, as animals brace themselves against the land as a fulcrum for pacing and running. It discusses the "lines of communication" threaded through the shapes of land. The chapter explores the "leading lines" in the contours of the land. It focuses on a point of view of forms of least resistance flowing down a gradient, a conservation law with symmetrical patterns, as it is seen draining through the land.
