{"id":7185,"date":"2015-07-17T15:36:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T20:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2015-07-30T06:35:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T11:35:38","slug":"10-absolutely-amazing-tree-friendly-tree-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2015\/07\/10-absolutely-amazing-tree-friendly-tree-houses.html","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Amazing Tree Friendly Tree Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montana Magica Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ~Henry David Thoreau<\/em><\/p>\n

Trees are awe inspiring. Walt Whitman talks about them profusely, Thoreau speaks of them as Gods<\/a>, and they provide our planet with one third of the oxygen we breathe every day (plants, blue-green algae and other marine organisms do the rest). It is no wonder that we have a fascination with one of Mother Nature\u2019s most towering examples of symbiosis and beauty, and why so many people dream of living in a tree house.<\/p>\n

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Three Story Tree House, Canada\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although it is nearly impossible to build a tree-friendly tree house, there are ways to minimize the damage, and some tree house designs are simply drool-worthy, especially when they keep the health of the tree in mind.<\/p>\n

When considering the problems with building your tree house on<\/em> the tree, there are a few things to reflect upon:<\/p>\n