Life on a mountain generally takes shape around gravity's pull and the flow of water down the mountain's contours. Plant life enjoys an array of possibilities based on how well water can be retained as it flows downward. The snow packs melt, and flow or trickle via pathways of least resistance, shaped by the water flows themselves, wind flows, and erosion.
On the ridges, sparse alpine meadows form, often horizontally and their leaves and roots extend so as to capture sunlight and nutrients, while limiting themselves to austere limits of extension.
Further down the mountain, where the land plateaus, lakes may form, which nurture meadows and grass, and then trees, which also tend to grow throughout the ravines, which carry water in the spring and summer.
The aligning desires in this case hold in various matrices, denser as water and nutrients collect, which map to the mountain's ever-changing contours.
