Help with this riddle?

[addler]

I think it's been translated from another language, or at least the guy who asked it has English as a third language, so I don't even think it makes sense but if anyone has any ideas please let me know and I will put them forward:

It rises from the ground, like wings it encompasses everything around it, like feathers everything around it is, what goes up must come down. What is it?

I have no idea but I want to say gravity.

I'm probably way off base

A lift?

Water vapour would fit quite well - the hydrological cycle. Surface water evaporates, forms clouds around the earth, then falls as rain.

That seems a bit banal though.

The sun?

An umbrella?

Is it not the sun?

Might it be mist?

Hmm could be the sun, that makes sense! I've sent all the answers to DP who will let me know, and then I will let you know!

Water - from a spring up to the surface, spreading everywhere, evaporating into a mist, forming clouds and falling as rain and sinking back into the ground.