Trees have been around for about 370 million years, and as you can from these incredible pictures, there's a good reason why they've survived for so long. Whether they're growing in the middle of gale-force winds, on the tops of rocky platforms, inside concrete tunnels, or even growing out of each other, these beautiful trees know how to survive in places where no other life finds a way. Which explains why the planet is host to around 3 trillion adult trees that cover an estimated 30% of the earth's land. Considering that plants produce the vast majority of the oxygen that we breathe, we should all think ourselves very fortunate that these cool trees are as resilient as they are. We wouldn't even be here if they weren't.
Now scroll down and check our list filled with unbelievable photos - from old trees clutching to life to big trees growing in desolate places and tree roots finding their way through pavements, the beauty of our Mother Nature is truly stunning. (h/t: twistedsifter)
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A Place Of Enchantment
This Palm Tree Fell Over And Curved Right Back Up
The Only Tree That Survived The Tsunami In Japan Between 70,000 Trees. Today Protected And Restored
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 4 More Trees Out Of Itself
Tree Of Life - Olympic National Park, Washington
A Tree's Root Spill Over The Sidewalk
Makes me wonder what is under the sidewalk and tree that the roots can't grow down?
yes literally i believe, i have seen something like this before as an artistic sculpture, but i cant seem to finds the details but will keep looking x
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A insistência para viver. Antes de se plantar uma árvore, deveria ser pesquisado, que árvores podem ser plantadas nessa região, porque tem árvores que caem sobre carros com pessoas dentro, árvores enormes, que depois ultrapassam as redes elétricas, estamos vivendo em meio ao concreto, nas grandes cidades, a árvore precisa espalhar suas raízes para continuar colendo do solo nutrientes para continuar nos dando, alimentos, flores lindas que nos impressionam com sua beleza.
you have the right to live tree I mean where are you getting your fodder
I can't exactly say the roots look beautiful, to me it just looks like a fall waiting to happen. People walk around looking at there cell phones, I wonder how many broken bones it's caused
I have seen a tree like this in town. I wish the root network could be imaged so we could see what it looks like below the surface.
This is how trees survive, inch by inch they fill the cracks with life.
And it followed the pattern of the tiles? Sometimes you just have to shake your head.
I hate these constructions... the trees has too small place to gain water and the grey concrete is everywhere... :(
I have a maple tree in my front yard, and this reminds me of what it does to the ground around it. I can't grow any grass, or anything else because it sucks everything out of the soil around it, and roots are everywhere. My advice: never plant a maple tree in your front yard.
Nature FTW
I Found A Tree Growing Through Speed Limit Sign
This Tree Still Has Its Leaves Because Of The Light Shining On It
This Tree That Refuses To Die
Life Finds A Way
Tree Roots Extend Across A Gap To The Mainland For Nutrients
Striving
Ta Promh Temple In Cambodia
Life Finds A Way
My Grandpa Hung His Skates On A Small Tree When He Was Younger. He Forgot He Had Left Them There And Found Them Years Later
A Tree Growing On Another Tree
This Tree Grew Out Of The Stump Of A Dead Tree And Then The Stump Rotted Away
A Tree Grows From Third Floor Window
Life Finds A Way
This Wooden Chair My Parents Bought Started Sprouting Leaves
Plant it! Plant the whole chair! It'll produce may more chairs for generations to come :)
I Spent Ages Staring At This Tree Before Taking This Pic. I Hope You Find It As Fascinating As I Did
This Floating Island That Grew At The End Of A Partially Sunken Tree
This Tree Is Growing Out Of Another Tree
One Tree On My Street Refused To Accept Winter
My Sister's Tree Is Eating Her Fence
The Old Piano Tree
Life,Uh... Finds A Way
Trees On A Tree
This Tree Grew Around A Stone Sculpture Of A Face, Making It Appear As If There Is A Green Man Trapped Inside
This Tree Is Tenacious
This Tree Growing Through A Fence
HK Forbes Street Kennedy Town Stone Wall Trees
and now my phobia of falling things is here again :-| imagine that tree fall down on you while waiting for the bus
The Way This Palm Tree Fell And Continued To Grow
A Little Tree On The Sidewalk
20+ Year Old Tree Growing Out The Top Of A Silo
Trees Winning Against Concrete In Hong Kong
The Way This Tree Ate This Bench
This Tree Grew Around A Fire Hydrant
On the plusside, the neighbourhood is probably very fire safe, since they didn't have the need to use it at all
This Tree's Roots Grew Up Through The Gaps In The Paving Stones
This Tree Is Completely Hollow, Yet Still Very Much Alive
The Famed "Bicycle Eaten By A Tree" Tucked In The Woods Right Off The Vashon Highway On Vashon Island, Washington
There's A Little Tree Growing On This Telephone Pole
This Tree Refuses To Die
Life Finds Its Way
Ta Prohm, Cambodia
This Tree Branch Spiraled Through The Chain Link Fence
Tree Growing Under Paint
This Tree Grew Inside This Brick Silo And Looks Like A Carrot
Palm Tree Grew Through An Oak Tree
Mildly Interesting Tree I Saw In Philadelphia
The Tree Fell, But The Branches Grew Into Trees
This Pine Tree
This Big Tree Ate Some Wall Bricks
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 7 New Trees
This Tree Is Barely Holding On After The Cliff Eroded Away
Something tells me that even if the entire tree just fell off the edge, If would find a way to survive and keep growing even after
Life Finds A Way
Trees Growing On An Abandoned Bridge
This Tree Grew Inside This Brick's Hole
A Tree Is Growing On The Side Of This Building
A Tree Growing On Another Tree
This Tree Fell Over But Continued To Grow
This Tree Grew Through A Rock
"Life, Uh, Finds A Way."
This Tree
Encapsulated
This Tree Didn't Quit When It Fell
This Tree Forked, Then Grew Back Together
This Tree Is Growing Out Of The Side Of A House
A New Tree Growing On A Old One Seattle, Wa
Tree Finds A Way
Tree Growing On A Roof In Panama City
Wooden Door
Tree Growing Out Of Gutters On A Roof My Buddy Went To Fix
Scars On A Tree After Growing Through This Fence
Nature Is Strange
This Building Has A Tree Growing Out Of It
Strength
Life Finds A Way
Fallen Tree Refuses To Die And Spouts Three New Trees
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 2 More Trees
This Tree Fell Over But Some Of Its Roots Were Left Intact, So The Branches Have Kept Growing, Acting Like Trunks
This Tree Grew Through The Fence
Maybe that's why "lost places" amaze me - when nature takes everything back we took from her without asking. She takes it gently and slowly but steady, as she has infinity to do so
Ther Nature reclaims her ground eventually if allowed. What a collection of tree pics, love them all :-)
I have a eucalyptus that grew to 18ft before being felled by strong wind ripping its roots out of the ground. Instead of dying the trunk started sprouting roots along it's length and the side branches started growing upright... now it is taller (and far wider) then it was before it fell.
In the woods behind my house is a tree eating an oven rack. P_20170815...7-jpeg.jpg 
Don't really see, nor know why, but those pics are heart-warming ! I'm in love.. Fav.
https://www.facebook.com/60hikes/photos/a.156209974506143.31283.105192056274602/1318162034977592/?type=1&theater
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey california?? The one on 17 mile drive
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey California on 17 mile drive?? That tree deserves some attention
I admit, I find the pictures of trees that had to grow through benches and old fences a tad annoying. Why didn't anybody in those cities bother to take care of the trees and just take away the damn obstacle? Landscapers, gardeners, city-planers - anyone?
More than 375 million years: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/oldest-tree-fossil-found-scientists-say-1.685125
how about that tree experiment that inverted a tree to prove how resentli they are? that was fantastic
These are beautiful pictures just on their own! But honestly they have such positive messages too! I love nature ^-^
It's amazing to me how everyone just trusts the idea of 370million years without question, but the oldest living trees in the world are younger than 6,000 years. If the world is as old as you say, wouldn't we be able to find at least one tree older than 6,000 years? "Prehistoric" is just another word for "I'm making a guess about what I see because no one was there to witness what I'm stating." -Tr https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/the-worlds-10-oldest-living-trees/methuselah
You don't need to find a tree like that. Nowadays there is genetic tools that can estimate DNA from that era. This is fantastic you must read about it more.
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Amazing. If you love trees check this out. Some "ecosexuals" are going further then you might imagine - http://www.ecohustler.co.uk/2014/07/13/earth-my-lover/
Some insects eat horribly tree-leaves. So, there are the good recipe how to protect garden and forest from harmful insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Km_2KhMvyQ
As President Donald Trump refused to sign the Paris agreement on the Climate change (because of CO2 is accumulated), then he must support the forest industry to absorb more CO2 from athmosphere and produce more woods for the furniture. Also, our cities needs more gardens around, to protect homes against gale and tornado and supply more fruits for consumers.
That's why I smirk behind the backs of the wood cutters in my neighborhood, who were given the order to chop down most of our beautiful poplars(the municipality planted them some 25 years ago but now they decided that it was a stupid idea, so of course the trees get it). Honestly, do you think you can go into a combat with nature and win? Do you think you can fight with your own creator? Trees would win, the Earth would survive and we, the arrogant homo sapienses would lose and die out(a species live for approximately 5 million years). Those trees know it and they proved it to us!
I'm not that faithful. Nature, sadly, is fragile. It would be a total desaster if we really managed to kill this planet. I don't even want to think about it. Let's just become vegetarians.
Load More Replies... Maybe that's why "lost places" amaze me - when nature takes everything back we took from her without asking. She takes it gently and slowly but steady, as she has infinity to do so
Ther Nature reclaims her ground eventually if allowed. What a collection of tree pics, love them all :-)
I have a eucalyptus that grew to 18ft before being felled by strong wind ripping its roots out of the ground. Instead of dying the trunk started sprouting roots along it's length and the side branches started growing upright... now it is taller (and far wider) then it was before it fell.
In the woods behind my house is a tree eating an oven rack. P_20170815...7-jpeg.jpg
Don't really see, nor know why, but those pics are heart-warming ! I'm in love.. Fav.
https://www.facebook.com/60hikes/photos/a.156209974506143.31283.105192056274602/1318162034977592/?type=1&theater
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey california?? The one on 17 mile drive
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey California on 17 mile drive?? That tree deserves some attention
I admit, I find the pictures of trees that had to grow through benches and old fences a tad annoying. Why didn't anybody in those cities bother to take care of the trees and just take away the damn obstacle? Landscapers, gardeners, city-planers - anyone?
More than 375 million years: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/oldest-tree-fossil-found-scientists-say-1.685125
how about that tree experiment that inverted a tree to prove how resentli they are? that was fantastic
These are beautiful pictures just on their own! But honestly they have such positive messages too! I love nature ^-^
It's amazing to me how everyone just trusts the idea of 370million years without question, but the oldest living trees in the world are younger than 6,000 years. If the world is as old as you say, wouldn't we be able to find at least one tree older than 6,000 years? "Prehistoric" is just another word for "I'm making a guess about what I see because no one was there to witness what I'm stating." -Tr https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/photos/the-worlds-10-oldest-living-trees/methuselah
You don't need to find a tree like that. Nowadays there is genetic tools that can estimate DNA from that era. This is fantastic you must read about it more.
Load More Replies... Amazing. If you love trees check this out. Some "ecosexuals" are going further then you might imagine - http://www.ecohustler.co.uk/2014/07/13/earth-my-lover/
Some insects eat horribly tree-leaves. So, there are the good recipe how to protect garden and forest from harmful insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Km_2KhMvyQ
As President Donald Trump refused to sign the Paris agreement on the Climate change (because of CO2 is accumulated), then he must support the forest industry to absorb more CO2 from athmosphere and produce more woods for the furniture. Also, our cities needs more gardens around, to protect homes against gale and tornado and supply more fruits for consumers.
That's why I smirk behind the backs of the wood cutters in my neighborhood, who were given the order to chop down most of our beautiful poplars(the municipality planted them some 25 years ago but now they decided that it was a stupid idea, so of course the trees get it). Honestly, do you think you can go into a combat with nature and win? Do you think you can fight with your own creator? Trees would win, the Earth would survive and we, the arrogant homo sapienses would lose and die out(a species live for approximately 5 million years). Those trees know it and they proved it to us!
I'm not that faithful. Nature, sadly, is fragile. It would be a total desaster if we really managed to kill this planet. I don't even want to think about it. Let's just become vegetarians.
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