A large knife or small hatchet will turn branches with leaves into a lean-to with either bark ties or paracord. However, if you have a few feet of paracord and a tarp, you simply tie paracord between two trees, drape tarp over paracord and stake one or both sides down, a'la Boy Scout pup tent. If a floor is needed, pine needles or leaves and branches can be fashioned into a floor. How much work to put into it is dependent on how long it'll be standing for your use.
“Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem." (I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.). Thomas Jefferson
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke, Loosely translated from Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents. (1770)
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