In this 1878 watercolour by early conservation advocate Alfred Sharpe, even as human hands attempt to deplete the land’s resources, plants have found small displays of revolution. On their way downstream from a kauri logging site in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, these logs have caught in a narrow passage of stream, disrupting the forward march of industry, if only for a short time. Stripped bare by humans, the trunks bear a striking resemblance to classical columns, as if some ancient temple has crumbled away in the bush. Here, nature itself has become the architecture, the heritage of the planet that is as worthy of care and protection as the grandest historic structures.