'pine' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used as a verb, noun, or adjective. For example: The smell of pine needles wafted through the air.
The sand – almost white and so fine it was used in hourglasses – curves around the island's south-eastern tip, backed by dunes and pine.
Therefore, he can "capture everything from the beach to the pine barren woods that fill New Jersey to the majestic skyscrapers of New York".
A single example, plucked at random from a lifetime's supply: years ago, after I'd been bickering with a friend who was visiting my flat in London, she fell silent for several minutes and then, pointing to my wooden floors, observed, "You know that floor's laminate, don't you?" (It was laminate. I'd been lying to myself for years that it was pine).
These days, she might well pine for a villain or two.
The gardens are dotted with olive, pine and carob trees, and quiet seating areas once intended for monastic reflection.
Meanwhile, laws protecting the Chilean pine tree state that only the great-grandson of the man who planted the tree can chop it down, and while legislation allows public workers to strike, they must make up their hours another time.
I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
It's a coastline of rocky coves and pine-fringed paths; a wild, untamed place that anyone can visit, either by road or by boat.
In the library, discreetly located off to one side of the courtyard, we plonked ourselves down in front of the roaring, pine-scented open fire and took a long breath.
Most accommodation is in village cottages and townhouses, so this beachfront villa in the hamlet of La Noue, with its parquet floors, pine-panelled walls and antique furnishings, is quite a find.
In northern Evia, a three-hour drive from Athens (the island is linked to the mainland by a bridge), the pretty Eleonas Hotel is set in a working olive grove, between sea and pine-clad hills - you can buy oil and olives from your hosts Stephanos and Maria to take home.
