Who needs Alice In Wonderland when we have Mother Nature? As crazy as it sounds, there are too many mind-boggling things happening just outside the comfort of your home. Like, did you know that... goats have accents and owls don't have eyeballs? Nature has surely been generous with throwing its weird gifts at us to think about.
And often, you don’t need to go far to realize there’s a bunch of (mildly) interesting stuff happening right at your doorstep. From an odd tree that has a single branch of an apple tree to a frog so tiny, your fingernail looks like Everest in comparison, these are some of the most amusing examples spotted by people and shared in the Reddit community r/mildlyinteresting.
Whether it’s mildly or overwhelmingly interesting remains a subject of debate, but one cannot argue just how crazy nature can be.
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A Rare Desert Bloom In The Atacama Desert In Chile
My New Petunia Looks Like A Galaxy
This Icy Bird Umbrella
Remember the days when you were a kid playing in the back yard, never ready to come home for dinner? It’s because spending time in nature was an adventure most of us were already ready to take on. From finding odd colorful bugs hiding in the greenery to catching your first fish in the neighbor’s pond, these were the moments full of excitement that you may still carry to this day.
But these days, Americans are spending less and less time outdoors. A 2019 Outdoor Foundation study showed that nearly half of the US population doesn’t participate in any outdoor recreation at all, and only 17.9 percent got out at least once a week in 2018. As a result, there have been one billion fewer hikes, climbs, rides, and outdoor excursions than a decade ago.
Albino Deer I Spotted Walking Into Work Last Week
If this is not a majestic deer goddess of sunshine, I'm a goose. I mean, LOOK at that rainbow.
Mt. Fuji Today - Rare Lenticular Cloud
This Shadow From Two Different Trees In My Parking Lot
I'm wondering if this is by design though?its clearly floodlight at the required angle for the effect...still brilliant though.
A similar Yale study from 2017 suggested that the lure of technology and places people work, live, and go to school “do not encourage contact with the natural world," and "myriad competing priorities and activities push experiences in nature to the side.”
“In particular,” the report said, “older adults were concerned that younger generations are overly reliant on electronic media, unaware of how the natural world works, and unacquainted with the simple enjoyment of being outdoors.”
Here at Bored Panda, we hope that showing the little wonders nature can bring us will bring back everyone's interest in going outdoors and spending some time in the sunshine. Not only does it help to boost your immune system, lift your mood, and make you more active, it also gives you the sense of curiosity we all had in childhood and lost somewhere in our hectic schedules.
The Smallest Maple Tree Leaf I’ve Ever Seen
This Twisted Driftwood I Found On The Beach
This is actually manmade, created in Aarhus by Jorn Ronnaus in 1993 and is called “Tanden-The tooth” also known as “the unicorn”.
Sunflower Growing Out Of The Sidewalk - Parent Patch Visible In Background
Vietnamese Mossy Frog
Colour Gradient Moss
This Red Only Rainbow I Saw At Midnight In Finland
A Cherry Just Grew Alone In The Middle Of My Tree
This Tree That Was Burnt In A Bushfire Continues To Live
The River By Me Flooded, Then Froze, Then The Water Receded Leaving These Hovering Ice Shelves On The Trees
This Tibetan Cherry Tree At My Local Park Looks Like Copper!
I think you mean this copper pole really resembles a tree. Nice try though.
This Cabbage In My Yard Showing It’s Fall Colors
This Baby Grasshopper Army In My Friend’s Garden
This Sorry Sap Of A Rock Formation
The New Growth On This Fir Tree
This Morning I Found By Far The Smallest Frog I Have Ever Seen In My Entire Life (My Average-Sized Fingernail For Scale)
This Tree Grew Inside An Old Silo And Finally Made It To The Top!
The Parrot Waxcap Mushroom. Found Across Northern Europe
My Wife Found This Tiny Skink In Our Garden, Some Much Needed Brightness On A Grey, Smoky Day
Squirrel With A Blonde Tail
Don't patronize her, do you guys have any idea how much it cost her to get that done at the squalon???
Left: A Painting From 1892, Right: The Same Spot In 2020
The Way The Condensation Formed On My Blackberry Plant This Morning
This Tree In My Neighbourhood That Has 1 Branch Of An Apple Tree And The Rest Is A Normal Tree
It's strange that the root stock seems to be producing big fruits, and the grated tree isn't. It should be the other way around.
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What exactly is a “normal“ tree? Looks like it might be a beech tree.
I had a beautiful huge rose bush in my yard that the root stock had pushed itself into. So I was able to have two different roses from one bush. Beautiful, looked like a rose flower arrangement.
We had a similar type situation. We planted a flowering crabapple tree, but over the years, a grafted part of the tree took over, and we ended up with a Granny Smith apple tree with no trace of the crabapple left.
Definitely grafted. I used to pick apples in Manjimup (Western Australia) as a lad. The main crop was Granny Smiths but orchardists used to graft "odd" branches like Golden Delicious or Jonathon randomly through the orchard and even plant the odd different tree to help with pollination. A Golden delicious grafted onto a Granny Smith is about the best eating apple you will ever taste.
This is very easy to do and there are "stealth grafters" who amend fruit tree branches onto non-fruiting trees to support pollinators and provide a little fruit for everyone else.
Which is graft and which is rootstock!? And did it revert, or was it just badly grafted?
I would think someone tried to graft an apple tree to a beech or w/e for w/e reason and it looks like the grafts all died off except that one branch and the beech took over? Thats my guess but im not a farmer lol
Load More Replies... Some little seed had mixed genes!! Crab Apple main branch the original graft has taken over the apple.
I think it's an apple branch grafted to whatever the heck kind of tree that is. The leaves growing off the trunk below the branch are the same color as the upper branches.
So if the rest is just a normal tree, does that mean it doesn’t grow plums coz it looks like a plum tree.
This is often actually done on purpose by gardeners. It's called grafting
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Nature has done its own tree grafting! Or, more like.y, an apple seed got into a small hole or groove in the tree, and grew there!
A Whole Colony Of Fairy Inkcaps
Now that's truly natural and much more amazing than the grape of grapes displayed above.
This Geyser Right Before It Blows
Every Year We Get A Single Red Rose Growing Through The Wall Of Ivy In Our Garden
Beautiful Elephant Hawk Moth Found In My Garden, UK
Whole Other World I Found In A Beer Bottle Laying In The Woods
Snow Had Just The Right Conditions So That It Rolled Up Like A Carpet
These Bunches Of Grapes Are Growing Into A...bunch Of Grapes
Just image if that whole thing fell and hit someone, it would be pretty bloody heavy.
Close Up Of My Chameleon
I Found This Leaf That Looks Like A Weather Radar
"today forecast for most of the regions is AUTUMN with a chance of leaf fall"
The Patterns On This Palm Frond
This Orchid Really Looks Like An Eagle
Found A Face On A Tree Today
My Grass Is An Inch Lower...and Got Frost. My Neighbors Did Not
3 Ears I Grew From The Same Heirloom Corn Variety
My Apple Looks Like Its Still Loading
This Bird That Looks Like Danny Devito
The Way These Succulents Grow In The Wall
A Tree Inside Another Tree
This Rock Inside A Rock
I Found A Cicada With The Mcdonald’s Logo On It
These Tumbleweeds That Piled Up In Front Of My Brother's House
Note: this post originally had 90 images. It’s been shortened to the top 50 images based on user votes.
This compilation is worthy of an exhibition. Quite wonderful. Thank you.
I loved it! Would love to see more of stuff like this! I don't get out much since my stroke!
What's with the article title? "Mildly interesting stuff" sounds quite patronizing
I actually appreciate how mellow it is - not "These 50 amazing sightings in nature will change your life forever!"
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This compilation is worthy of an exhibition. Quite wonderful. Thank you.
I loved it! Would love to see more of stuff like this! I don't get out much since my stroke!
What's with the article title? "Mildly interesting stuff" sounds quite patronizing
I actually appreciate how mellow it is - not "These 50 amazing sightings in nature will change your life forever!"
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