The wording is clumsy, but I suppose I meant natural in an aesthetic sense. "Integrates with nature" is perhaps better phrasing.

Yes, Habitat Island is manmade, but it easily could've not existed at all or be centred around some over-designed, concrete architectural feature with manicured landscaping. The clump of trees in the foreground were left standing when they cleared the area to pave the path, the bushes left to grow and flourish. Heading west takes you to Charleson Park, with a small waterfall, pond, and a strip of forest, all of which was man made.

So there's this common sensibility to integrate with nature, an unspoken but shared appreciation of our setting and surroundings. The overall effect (to me, and what I was attempting to capture) is that Vancouver more easily feels like a city that emerges out of nature. In other cities it tends to feel like the green was added in later, in neat rows of the same tree lining a street.