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45 Times Nature Won The Battle Against Civilization (New Pics)
We can think that we're leaving our mark on the Earth as much as we want, but it's only temporary. With time, Mother Nature reclaims its lost territories and there's not much we can do about it. Bored Panda has compiled a list of photos of abandoned places, cars and even entire towns that are losing their battles against disappearing because of the force of nature, and you don't have to be an urban explorer to be moved by them. "By the sweat of your brow, you will eat your food until you return to the ground since from it, you were taken; for dust, you are and to dust, you will return."
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#1
Amazing Abandoned 13th Century Château Located In France
In 1932 a fire broke out and caused devastating damage to the building and its contents. It has since been left to the elements.
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#2
Someone Added Googley Eyes To This Tree Consuming A Bridge
#3
Abandoned House, Norway Style
#4
An Abandoned Church In France
#5
Statue Of Buddha Being Reclaimed By Mangrove Forest
#6
Trees Sprouted On Top Of Abandoned Chimneys
#7
The Desert Reclaiming Territories In Namibia. Now A Ghost Town, Kolmanskop Was Once An Oasis Where Miners Lived
#8
I Saw A Tree Eating A Stop Sign
#9
Abandoned Apartment Building Being Claimed By The Sea In The Former Fishing Village Of Kirovsky, Russia
#10
Scola Tower, Liguria, Italy
#11
Trees Grow Inside The Hull Of A Sunken Ship
Ankita Pattanayak 7 years ago (edited)
This is a chance the trees would not have got otherwise.Finally, humans helping nature!!
#12
Abandoned Bike Reclaimed By Ivy
Pan Narrans 7 years ago
As this is in The Netherlands it's probably an art project. Your bike would have been stolen before ivy had a chance to take hold.
#13
Destined To Be Green. Abandoned Escalator
#14
Mother Nature Is Calling. Somewhere In China
#15
This Tree Grew Over A Grave Stone And Took The Cross With It
#16
Shrine In Japan
#17
Abandoned Asylum In Italy That Has Been Touched By Bob Ross
#18
Abandoned Stone Cottage. Sneem/Kenmare, Ireland
J L 7 years ago
You find these all over Ireland. Most are famine era. Either the people died, left for the cities or left the country. Ireland can feel crowded, tourists everywhere and better roads connecting the whole country and hundreds of thousands me people with the recent immigration but there still less people living here that there was before the famine.
#19
Earth Slowly Reclaiming An Abandoned Boat - SS City Of Adelaide, Wrecked Off The Coast Of Magnetic Island, Australia
#20
A Barn Claimed By Kudzu In Tennessee
spirit wolf 7 years ago
This is such a common sight in rural Tennessee, that thing grows at lightning speed.
#21
Overgrown Roller Coaster
#22
This Building Was Completely Overgrown By Ivy
#23
Abandoned Railway Bridge In Czech Republic
#24
Just A Little Moss, It Will Buff Out
#25
This Tree I Found Growing In An Old Silo
#26
Mushrooms Growing Through The Floor!
#27
I Found A Tree Growing Through Speed Limit Sign
#28
Lost Road In WA
Kevin Camp 7 years ago
We have many of those in Oklahoma. Especially where the Corps of Engineers have created reservoirs and swallowed up hundreds of small communities. Roads that disappear into a lake is common place here. There are dozens of small towns in Oklahoma that were relocated because otherwise they would be underwater. Some are just gone.
#29
I Grew Up On The Puerto Rico Navy Base Which Closed In 2004. It’s Now Overgrown And Taken Over By Nature
I found a picture of the road I grew up on- this is the part after the hill behind me. It makes me sad, there were lots of good memories there.
#30
A Tree Eating A Fence
#31
This Tree Has Almost Completely Overgrown A Large Metal Sign Posted On It
#32
Nature Winning The Battle Against Civilization In The Exclusion Zone Around Chernobyl
#33
This Street Sign Has Been Covered By This Tree
#34
Abandoned Car In Beijing
Luis Milian 7 years ago
I imagined abandoned because hoomans left the area, but to live along side a trash car and let it sit there long enough for this to happen is just lazy and nasty
#35
Colony Of Moss Growing Inside A Bike Seat
#36
This Tree Near My School Track That Absorbed A Fence And Shows The Pattern On The Bark
Louise Brigance 7 years ago
Tree is totally uninterested in who was there first! Never mind, I'm coming through!!
#37
Cactus In A Rain Gutter
#38
A Sacred Tree Reclaiming An Occupied 5 Story Building In An Old Section Of Downtown Kolkata
Susan Gardner 7 years ago
very creepy. talk about a 'haunted house.' can you imagine what it looks like at night? yikes!
#39
This Tree Has Nearly Totally Grown Around A Sign
#40
Abandoned City Akarmara, Abkhazia
#41
Road washed out by flood, WA state
Randomcthulu 7 years ago
I've seen this kind of thing happen in New Mexico after heavy rains caused flash flooding.
#42
Found A Shoe In The Woods
#43
An Old Abandoned Road Slowly Healing Over And Being Reclaimed By Nature
#44
These Plants Growing Out Of Someone’s Car
Toujin C'Thlu 7 years ago
A similar thing happened to my dad's car when I was a kid. We joked that it was becoming a Chia Car
#45
Abandoned Office Found With Lots Of Moss And Mold
#48
Abandoned Bridge Near Manu, Peru Getting Overgrown With Vines
#49
Mossy Phone Booth. Hoh Rainforest, Olympic Peninsula, Washington State
#50
Lost War Tool Taken Over By Beautiful Nature
#51
Kudzu Claims A Bridge
#53
This Unused Swing Covered In Moss
#54
Rolling Acres Mall In Akron, Ohio
#56
My Friend Found This In The Woods Behind His House
#57
A Tennis Ball Covered In Moss
#58
A Lantern Overgrown By Vines That Looks Like A Tree
#59
These Bikes That Tenants Left In The Back Yard
Lilli 7 years ago
wow. I have a story I just made up now! what if a teenager had a bunch of his/her friends over and they had a sleepover? then, the teenager ate their brains after playing video games for hours because he started hallucinating and thought he was a zombie? then, their bikes remained there... sorry, what is wrong with me? where did that thought even come from???
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P Piorecki 7 years ago
Anyone recall a show many years ago, I think it was either the Discovery Channel or on the History Channel that showed what would happen to our planet if all humans all of the sudden disappeared from existence. If I remember correctly, I think they said it would take approximately 250,000 years for all signs of our civilization to be completely gone.
URA_HippoCritter 7 years ago
Everything created on Earth eventually goes back to that earth. As it should.
P Piorecki 7 years ago
Anyone recall a show many years ago, I think it was either the Discovery Channel or on the History Channel that showed what would happen to our planet if all humans all of the sudden disappeared from existence. If I remember correctly, I think they said it would take approximately 250,000 years for all signs of our civilization to be completely gone.
URA_HippoCritter 7 years ago
Everything created on Earth eventually goes back to that earth. As it should.
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