We humans often build roads and bridges, canals and ports, even entire cities at the expense of the environment. But nature isn't planning on giving up. On the contrary, it is determined to persevere, showing just how fragile our creations are.
Maybe you remember our earlier list on Mother Nature reclaiming its territories, maybe not, but time passes and bricks continue to crumble, so Bored Panda decided to refresh your memory on the topic.
We put together a new batch of photos to show that nature is a force to be reckoned with and that ultimately, the world belongs to it. As much as we would like to think otherwise.
#1 Tree That Grew From The Inside Of An Abandoned Chimney
Image credits: Vijaykulange
#2 A Friend Found This Out Hiking And Posted It On FB, Thought It Was Pretty Cool
I'm assuming the fabric and padding created a moist coarse surface for the moss to exploit.
Image credits: psithurism_daze
#3 Tree Growing Around A Hiking Sign
Image credits: AngDag
#4 This Vine Climbed Up A Chair To Silence My Wind Chime
Image credits: Redtenchu
#5 This Plant Has Been Trying To Stealthily Steal My Broom For Months
Image credits: pineapple_blue
#6 Ivy Overtaking A Car
#7 The Roots Grow According To The Pavement Pattern
Image credits: waschmack
#8 This Tree Has Grown Round The Railing
Image credits: clickybyro2757
#9 Railroad Tracks In The Forest (Taiwan)
Image credits: journeywithlight
#10 Found This Beautiful Tree Growing Inside An Abandoned Silo While I Was Exploring
Image credits: runswithjello
#11 This Chinese Fishing Village Was Abandon In The 1990s. Nature Has All But Reclaimed It (Houtouwan, China)
Image credits: Green Jane
#12 Abandoned Synagogue
Image credits: tobi_urbex
#13 Nature Wins Again. Found This While Hiking In Boothbay, Maine
Image credits: MacNCheese22
#14 Found A Tree Growing Through A Stone Wall
Image credits: MikeLeRoi
#15 This Tree Grew Inside The Stop Sign
Image credits: m1nus
#16 130,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Skull Encased In Stalagmites, Found In A Sinkhole In A Cave In Italy
Image credits: Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Superintendent of the Archeology of Puglia
#17 This Tree Swallowing A Trespassing Sign
Image credits: daito-
#18 This Gate Has Been Open For So Long That A Bush Has Grown Around It
Image credits: Swotboy2000
#19 House Abandoned And Retaken By The Desert In California
Image credits: DrFetusRN
#20 Abandoned Castle In Ireland
Image credits: malteheitmueller
#21 Radioactive Cars From The Fukushima Disaster Slowly Being Eaten By Nature
Image credits: Arkadiusz Podniesiński
#22 Tree That Grew Through And Around A Wagon Wheel
Image credits: jjonesreddit
#23 A Tree Somehow Growing In A Mexico City's Pedestrian Bridge
Image credits: hipersensiblx
#24 Boat Wreck Reclaimed By Nature And Turned Into An Island
Image credits: KodyLapointe
#25 Low Mileage Driver
Image credits: notdakotafanning
#26 Hotel In Southern Europe
Image credits: Mirna Pavlovic
#27 Becoming One With Nature
#28 This Tree That Has Absorbed Its Bench Over The Years
Image credits: MaxHermanos
#29 Mushrooms Growing Out Of A Scooter Seat
Image credits: Bennprim365
#30 This Overgrown Boat We Saw. Nature Ship "Ms Heimliche Liebe"
Image credits: Zombiebreadfist
#31 Apartment Complex In Keelung, Taiwan Slowly Overtaken By Trees
Image credits: moreice45
#32 Old Hotel Room (Europe, 2012)
Image credits: matthias_haker
#33 This Oak Tree Growing Through A Railing
Image credits: That-70s-Ho
#34 Abandoned Place Reclaimed By Nature
Image credits: matthias_haker
#35 The Gate Keeper At The Abandoned Putzar Castle In Germany
#36 A Piano Left To Nature
Image credits: DrFetusRN
#37 Abandoned Tank
Image credits: Константин Антипин
#38 Tree Growing Around A Letterbox
Image credits: djjmilner
#39 This Car Has Grass Growing Through The Hood
Image credits: primatemechanix
#40 While My Sister Was On A Long Business Trip An Outdoor Plant Grew Indoors Through A Locked Window
Image credits: derf_vader
#41 This Tree Grew Inside An Old Silo And Finally Made It To The Top
Image credits: Wlverenefan
#42 Fern Growing Under A Circular Roof Hole
#43 Real Grass Growing Through The Fake Grass
Image credits: ameades
#44 This Blanket Has Been Sitting Since October. A Species Of Creeping Ivy Started Growing Through It, But Only Thriving Where The Black Bands Of Color Are
Image credits: ratlizardmutantgirl
#45 Invasive Plant Growing Up Through My Driveway
Image credits: blamethecranes
#46 The Way How The Tree Roots Grow Follows The Gaps Between Bricks
Image credits: Eat_Around_the_Rosie
#47 This Tree Growing Through A Fence
Image credits: andygleason
#48 Weeds Were Growing Out Of My Dad's Car
Image credits: evilpig
#49 Old Shiva Temple Firmly Embraced By The Sacred Bodhi Tree In Bangladesh
Image credits: sacrecoeur1206
#50 Sintra, Portugal
#51 This Abandoned Railroad In Hemlock Forest Taiwan
Image credits: brian_ytsu
#52 Nature Takes Everything Back Eventually
Image credits: justinjenny
#53 Abandoned Bridge In New Zealand
Image credits: sacrecoeur1206
#54 Abandoned Water Park In Florida
Image credits: abandonedsoutheast.com
#55 Took My Dad To See If His First Car Was Still Where He Left It When Its Engine Seized - 40 Years Ago. It Was
Image credits: Deletraz
#56 Trees Growing Through This Car
Image credits: SkinnyG1950
#57 This Tree That Grew Over A Parking Sign Over The Years
Image credits: Lafite-Rotschild
#58 This Ruined Church With A Tree Growing In The Middle
Image credits: caerphoto
#59 The Way This Weed Grew In The Past 2 Years. Walked By It Every Morning Since It Was A Baby Weed. This Goes To Show You, The Power Of Nature In A Small Sense
Image credits: Huichan81
#60 Mother Nature Always Wins
Image credits: leakgigs
#61 Abandoned Paper Mill With Nature Starting To Take Over
Image credits: Old-Blighty
#62 There's A Plant Growing Inside The McDonald's Drive Through Order Screen
Image credits: barnesjam
#63 Gates Only Unlock On One Side, Causing That Half The Path To Grow Wild
Image credits: face-on-the-head
#64 The New World Mall, In Bangkok, Was Closed In 1997 After It Was Found To Have Breached Building Regulations
Image credits: imgur.com
#65 An Agave Growing Massive In This Long-Abandoned Greenhouse
Image credits: liesje-73
#66 Abandoned Roller Coaster Being Taken Over By Nature
Image credits: ethan_kahn
#67 Nature Took Over. 1965 vs. 2012
Image credits: 404_lilynotfound
#68 Abandoned Railroad Tracks In Forest
Image credits: mimieieieieie
#69 This House Belongs To The Trees Now
Image credits: Thomas Homolya
#70 This Abandoned Greenhouse
Image credits: glory.of.disrepair
#71 WW2 Bomber Being Swallowed Up By Jungle Undergrowth. Photos By Bruce Mcpherson
Image credits: Bruce McPherson
#72 A Tree Growing In An Abandoned Mansion
Image credits: brapyoubud
#73 Abandoned Cars In The Ardennes
#74 Ghostly Overgrown Villa In Germany
Image credits: Darksider2
#75 A Vine Grew Up My Basketball Hoop
Image credits: Torn8oz
#76 A Vine Grew Around This Beer Bottle Left Out Overnight After A Party
Image credits: Psilocynical
#77 Cactus Growing Out Of A Water Pipe
Image credits: Blxckbee
#78 This Is Insane
#79 Plants Growing On My Old Chair
Image credits: thunde-r
#80 Just Some Grass Growing On A Lawnmower
Image credits: Jalooper
#81 Quasi-Legible Moss Growing In The Letters Of This Fallen Tombstone
Image credits: Larvsesh
#82 Something Started Growing Under Our Wall
Image credits: drizzo87
#83 My Great Aunts House Slowly Being Reclaimed By Nature Taken On My Trip To Mexico Last Year
Image credits: effinwookie
#84 MS World Discoverer Was A German Expedition Cruise Ship. It Hit A Uncharted Reef In The Sandfly Passage, Solomon Islands, 29 April, 2000
Image credits: sv_manjana
#85 Abandoned Soviet Monument In Krasnodar, Russia
Image credits: 13_pilot1
#86 Abandoned Machinery, Romania
#87 Abandoned Intersection Near Ottawa
Image credits: RyVal
#88 Abandoned Drive-In Theatre
Image credits: Owen Kanzler
#89 Jet Graveyard
#90 Old Abandoned Tracks
#91 The Inside Of A Castle Near Where I Live, Ireland
Image credits: JmaesGeoghegan
#92 Abandoned Poolhouse Overgrown By Plants
Image credits: sasa_shadowed
#93 The Royal Alexandra Nursing Home In Paisley, Scotland
Image credits: TheAmericanWannabe
#94 Abandoned Ford Bronco In The Woods
#95 Abandoned Cottage In England
#96 Waterway Underneath An Old Spanish Arms Factory Being Overtaken By Nature: Like A Scene From LoTR
Image credits: lauricgourbalphotographies
#97 Pool Being Swallowed By Ivy Inside The Abandoned Days Inn Hotel In PA
Image credits: RiddimRyder
#98 Abandoned And Overgrown College In Gali, Abkhazia
Image credits: boredpanda.com
#99 Abandoned Wagakawa Hydro Power Plant, Japan
Image credits: mashiro.3191
#100 Alcatraz Island
Image credits: PlusUltra3005
#101 Reclamation In Overdrive, New Orleans
Image credits: BreakingDed
#102 Due To The Quarantine, Nature Is Starting To Reclaim The Stairwells At The University Where I Work
Image credits: NotVerySmarts
#103 This Weed Growing Inside My Patio Fell Over Then Continued Growing Upwards
Image credits: pricklypearanoid
#104 I Found A Road Being Reclaimed By Nature
Image credits: reidminer
#105 Stumbled Upon This While Surveying In Upstate New York
Image credits: _thegreatGAR
#106 Unabandoned Train Station
Image credits: ribeirocatolico
#107 This Car Was Left On My Grandparents’ Property When They Bought It
Image credits: sketchmuffin51
#108 Abandoned President Heads
Image credits: Adventure_As_One
#109 Abandoned Hospital In Khovrino, Moscow
Image credits: narekh21
#110 This Tree That Grew Through A Fence
Image credits: BlueCrane93
#111 A Fascinating Look At How This Tree Grew Around An Old Fire Hydrant
Image credits: doggowolf
#112 Sidewalk In São Paulo, Brazil, Completely Ruined By Roots That Grew Over Time
Image credits: iagoruby
#113 This Cool Gravestone That Nature's Reclaimed
Image credits: ComeOnDonkey
#114 This Abandoned Shoe I Found Deep In The Forest
Image credits: Nasobema
#115 There Is A Chair Near My Local Train Station Which Is So Old That There Is Moss Growing On It
Image credits: andre-art13-anime
#116 Abandoned Altar In The Woods
Image credits: chopkins19
#117 Abandoned Polar Bear Enclosure. Vancouver, BC
Image credits: Ernie H. Reksten
#118 Photo I Took Of The Water Slides
Image credits: flowerchild2003
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