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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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#1
A Place Of Enchantment
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This Palm Tree Fell Over And Curved Right Back Up
#3
The Only Tree That Survived The Tsunami In Japan Between 70,000 Trees. Today Protected And Restored
#4
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 4 More Trees Out Of Itself
#5
Tree Of Life - Olympic National Park, Washington
#6
A Tree's Root Spill Over The Sidewalk
#7
Nature FTW
#8
I Found A Tree Growing Through Speed Limit Sign
#9
This Tree Still Has Its Leaves Because Of The Light Shining On It
#10
This Tree That Refuses To Die
#11
Life Finds A Way
#12
Tree Roots Extend Across A Gap To The Mainland For Nutrients
#13
Striving
#14
Ta Promh Temple In Cambodia
#15
Life Finds A Way
#16
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
#17
A Tree Growing On Another Tree
#18
This Tree Grew Out Of The Stump Of A Dead Tree And Then The Stump Rotted Away
#19
A Tree Grows From Third Floor Window
#20
Life Finds A Way
#21
This Wooden Chair My Parents Bought Started Sprouting Leaves
Krista Leary 7 years ago
Plant it! Plant the whole chair! It'll produce may more chairs for generations to come :)
Ged Maybury 7 years ago
The Throne of Wands. (You'll need to know your Tarot to get that one.)
Victoria Pietsch 7 years ago
Ooh! You found a rare chair tree. Most people, upon hearing this, wouldn't believe it, and would think you were confusing it with cherry trees, but I assure you, you have found an amazing feat of nature! Once it reaches maturity, the chair tree will begin to produce more chair saplings in a manner similar to the root growth of Aspen trees. Then, your lawn can be littered with chair trees! Good luck
Miruna Copoiu 7 years ago
it looks like osier, or willow tree, it sprouts easily and it may be used in endangered areas preventing landslides
Miruna Copoiu 7 years ago
young branches from these kind of trees are often used to make baskets or even some kind of fence
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Christiane Henriksen 7 years ago
It was probably made like this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C-L8Q5UB9c
Ika Prastya 7 years ago
The wood is still wet no wonder it grows sprouts. Wooden benches are made of ovened wood.
Bella Zyla Harder 7 years ago
Furniture doesn't just grow on trees y'know... the converse, however...
Patriciarowell 7 years ago
I agree. Plant the chair. You will probably have a fascinating grove of trees.
Katie Fowler 7 years ago
That is a really cool chair! But how did they bend the green, live wood without it breaking???
#22
I Spent Ages Staring At This Tree Before Taking This Pic. I Hope You Find It As Fascinating As I Did
#23
This Floating Island That Grew At The End Of A Partially Sunken Tree
#24
This Tree Is Growing Out Of Another Tree
#25
One Tree On My Street Refused To Accept Winter
#26
My Sister's Tree Is Eating Her Fence
#27
The Old Piano Tree
#28
Life,Uh... Finds A Way
#29
Trees On A Tree
#30
This Tree Grew Around A Stone Sculpture Of A Face, Making It Appear As If There Is A Green Man Trapped Inside
#31
This Tree Is Tenacious
#32
This Tree Growing Through A Fence
#33
HK Forbes Street Kennedy Town Stone Wall Trees
Intensive Panda 7 years ago
and now my phobia of falling things is here again :-| imagine that tree fall down on you while waiting for the bus
#34
The Way This Palm Tree Fell And Continued To Grow
#35
A Little Tree On The Sidewalk
#36
20+ Year Old Tree Growing Out The Top Of A Silo
#37
Trees Winning Against Concrete In Hong Kong
#38
The Way This Tree Ate This Bench
#39
This Tree Grew Around A Fire Hydrant
Michel M. Prins 7 years ago
On the plusside, the neighbourhood is probably very fire safe, since they didn't have the need to use it at all
#40
This Tree's Roots Grew Up Through The Gaps In The Paving Stones
#41
This Tree Is Completely Hollow, Yet Still Very Much Alive
#42
The Famed "Bicycle Eaten By A Tree" Tucked In The Woods Right Off The Vashon Highway On Vashon Island, Washington
#43
There's A Little Tree Growing On This Telephone Pole
#44
This Tree Refuses To Die
#45
Life Finds Its Way
#46
Ta Prohm, Cambodia
#47
This Tree Branch Spiraled Through The Chain Link Fence
#48
Tree Growing Under Paint
#49
This Tree Grew Inside This Brick Silo And Looks Like A Carrot
#50
Palm Tree Grew Through An Oak Tree
#51
Mildly Interesting Tree I Saw In Philadelphia
#52
The Tree Fell, But The Branches Grew Into Trees
#53
This Pine Tree
#54
This Big Tree Ate Some Wall Bricks
#55
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 7 New Trees
#56
This Tree Is Barely Holding On After The Cliff Eroded Away
Lazy Panda 7 years ago
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
#57
Life Finds A Way
#58
Trees Growing On An Abandoned Bridge
#60
This Tree Grew Inside This Brick's Hole
#61
A Tree Is Growing On The Side Of This Building
#62
A Tree Growing On Another Tree
#63
This Tree Fell Over But Continued To Grow
#64
This Tree Grew Through A Rock
#65
"Life, Uh, Finds A Way."
#66
This Tree
#67
Encapsulated
#68
This Tree Didn't Quit When It Fell
#69
This Tree Forked, Then Grew Back Together
#70
This Tree Is Growing Out Of The Side Of A House
#71
A New Tree Growing On A Old One Seattle, Wa
#72
Tree Finds A Way
#73
Tree Growing On A Roof In Panama City
#74
Wooden Door
#75
Tree Growing Out Of Gutters On A Roof My Buddy Went To Fix
#76
Scars On A Tree After Growing Through This Fence
#77
Nature Is Strange
#78
This Building Has A Tree Growing Out Of It
#79
Strength
#80
Life Finds A Way
#81
Fallen Tree Refuses To Die And Spouts Three New Trees
#82
This Tree Fell Over And Grew 2 More Trees
#83
This Tree Fell Over But Some Of Its Roots Were Left Intact, So The Branches Have Kept Growing, Acting Like Trunks
#84
This Tree Grew Through The Fence
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What do you think ?
Intensive Panda 7 years ago
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
Kirsten Preston 7 years ago
Ther Nature reclaims her ground eventually if allowed. What a collection of tree pics, love them all :-)
mcborge1 7 years ago
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.
TheOther Left 7 years ago
In the woods behind my house is a tree eating an oven rack. P_20170815...7-jpeg.jpg 
Tibboh Oblib 7 years ago
Don't really see, nor know why, but those pics are heart-warming ! I'm in love.. Fav.
Stephen Ausherman 7 years ago
https://www.facebook.com/60hikes/photos/a.156209974506143.31283.105192056274602/1318162034977592/?type=1&theater
Lisa Calhoon 7 years ago
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey california?? The one on 17 mile drive
Lisa Calhoon 7 years ago
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey California on 17 mile drive?? That tree deserves some attention
Katinka Min 7 years ago
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?
Ansgar Sakariassen 7 years ago
More than 375 million years: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/oldest-tree-fossil-found-scientists-say-1.685125
Meibara Shiroshou 7 years ago
how about that tree experiment that inverted a tree to prove how resentli they are? that was fantastic
Just a Purpler 7 years ago
These are beautiful pictures just on their own! But honestly they have such positive messages too! I love nature ^-^
Trevor Ryks 7 years ago
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
Erez Kauffman 7 years ago
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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Matt Mellen 7 years ago
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/
Andy Popov 7 years ago
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
Andy Popov 7 years ago
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.
Zori the degu 7 years ago
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!
Iapetos 7 years ago
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... Intensive Panda 7 years ago
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
Kirsten Preston 7 years ago
Ther Nature reclaims her ground eventually if allowed. What a collection of tree pics, love them all :-)
mcborge1 7 years ago
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.
TheOther Left 7 years ago
In the woods behind my house is a tree eating an oven rack. P_20170815...7-jpeg.jpg
Tibboh Oblib 7 years ago
Don't really see, nor know why, but those pics are heart-warming ! I'm in love.. Fav.
Stephen Ausherman 7 years ago
https://www.facebook.com/60hikes/photos/a.156209974506143.31283.105192056274602/1318162034977592/?type=1&theater
Lisa Calhoon 7 years ago
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey california?? The one on 17 mile drive
Lisa Calhoon 7 years ago
What about the lone Cyprus tree in Monterey California on 17 mile drive?? That tree deserves some attention
Katinka Min 7 years ago
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?
Ansgar Sakariassen 7 years ago
More than 375 million years: http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/oldest-tree-fossil-found-scientists-say-1.685125
Meibara Shiroshou 7 years ago
how about that tree experiment that inverted a tree to prove how resentli they are? that was fantastic
Just a Purpler 7 years ago
These are beautiful pictures just on their own! But honestly they have such positive messages too! I love nature ^-^
Trevor Ryks 7 years ago
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
Erez Kauffman 7 years ago
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... Matt Mellen 7 years ago
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/
Andy Popov 7 years ago
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
Andy Popov 7 years ago
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.
Zori the degu 7 years ago
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!
Iapetos 7 years ago
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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