The Nest (covered in branches), the Blue Cone (which is actually painted red) and the UFO (a spaceship skewered by pines) all have enough room to sleep a family of four.

CNN: Modern design meets nature with Sweden's Treehotel

These birds are noted for the elaborate covered nests which hang like bags from the branches of trees that the males build to attract females.

ECONOMIST: Evolutionary biology

Stand in an orchard as the glow of late afternoon is filtered through the laden branches, sending a lattice of pale shadow onto the fruit-covered floor, and it is easy to understand why the orchard holds an elevated place in British mythology.

BBC: England's West Country: Still the apple of our eye

Isaac has left its mark in the form of downed trees, curbs covered in branches and other detritus, a few twisted stoplights and bent signs.

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The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.

NEWYORKER: Once Upon a Time

At the end of a sandy track leading out of town into the surrounding scrubland, in a house made of rough-hewn branches covered in clay, Lucia Vieira looks after her two children while her husband is out earning a mere 5 reais a day as a farm labourer.

ECONOMIST: Three square meals a day