Sky forest

"The sky forest appeared to be composed of only one sort of tree, long-needled pines. Most of the trees I could see had fantastically curved and twisted trunks and branches, with many forks and snaking ramifications." "The sky forest was more like a school of fish than any terrestrial boskage. The trees were for the most part well spaced out, a few yards between each and its neighbour. Light filtered down between them as well as through their branches. I could see scattered clumps where two or three trees were enmeshed together at branch or root, though whether because they had always grown that way or because of some windstorm entangling them I couldn’t tell." "Some trees were crowned with sunlight, others with shadow, but all were full of insects and birds." "The trees looked rather like I expected any pine tree might if you could remove it, roots intact, from the ground and display it in midair without the concealment of the soil. Each tree’s root system hung down below its trunk like a rustic chandelier. The roots had bark close to the trunk, as if they were nothing more than inverted branches; as the roots extended down and out the bark dwindled, until the lowest and thinnest roots were a pale golden-brown."