
Civilization seems to endure throughout the ages, or so we might think. Nature slowly wins all battles , grinding mountains to dust in ages , we rarely are there to witness the moment of natures triumph. In some cases however nature manages to overcome our sprawling endeavors t0 expand civilization in a relatively short time . If you ever wondered how a postapocalyptic landscape looks like, how entire cities, how thousands abandoned places look, we can glimpse into a possible future , where nature carries on without us, in these instances were objects and buildings were abandoned into the hands of nature , and left without mans care , were completely overrun by vegetation and wildlife.
Man would do well to learn that nature always finds a way and that nature wastes nothing. Buildings will become ruins part of future landscapes , and may constitute wonders for future generations. This was possible due to the abandonment of man owing to many reasons, financial or functional , and any attempt to restore them by man has failed , but nature proves yet again to be the greatest master of re-conversion and reclaiming back space and material. And this may be the most important lesson , that man builds without long term plans and still builds things which are difficult to convert and which rarely find new life after their current lifespan runs out. We rarely think beyond the 50 year lifespan of a building and what impact it will have in the future . Nature on the other hand never ceases to assert its slow control over the traces of civilization , and bring every inch of concrete back into the fold. Perhaps it should be an alarm signal to consumerist societies to use items of greater quality with an increased lifespan and planned recycling , to build and plan for the end a building when it is either beyond any functionality, or because of financial reasons it can no longer function as it did before, reconversion and flexibility becoming the name of the game in designing and building the world around us.
Abandoned Places That Have Been Conquered by Nature
Contents
- Abandoned Places That Have Been Conquered by Nature
- Vegetation Reclaiming the Concrete Buildings , Hong Kong
- The Old City Railways in Paris
- Old Bicycle Engulfed by a Tree Vashon Island, Washington
- Bangkok’s Abandoned Mall Occupied by Fish
- Nature Reclaims Old Mill in Sorrento, Italy
- Old Ferris Wheel engulfed by foliage
- Old Automobile Scrapyard, Belgium
- Namibia’s Desert Reclaiming Mining Towns
- After 160 years , The Abandoned Paris Railways
- A Ship Nearly 100 Years Old in Sydney, Australia
- Roots Slowly Engulfing the Sidewalk Pavement
- Abandoned Mansion Overwhelmed by Foliage Near Kilgarvan, Ireland
- Abkhazia’s Abandoned Train Station Lost to Nature , Georgia
- I.M. Cooling Tower Slowly Reclaimed by Vegetation, Belgium
- Kamchatka’s Fishermen Town Lost to the Sea, Russia
- Angkor Former Seat of the Khmer Empire, Cambodia
- Abandoned Hotel Now Sheltering Nature
- Ukraine’s Ghost Town , Pripyat Reclaimed by the Forest
A Tree Grows Through an Old Piano, California
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Vegetation Reclaiming the Concrete Buildings , Hong Kong
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The Old City Railways in Paris
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Old Bicycle Engulfed by a Tree Vashon Island, Washington
Image credits: Ethan Welty
Bangkok’s Abandoned Mall Occupied by Fish
Image credits: Jesse Rockwell
Nature Reclaims Old Mill in Sorrento, Italy
Image credits: Jason Wallace
Old Ferris Wheel engulfed by foliage
Image credits: Kyle Telechan
Old Automobile Scrapyard, Belgium
Image credits: Rosanne de Lange
Namibia’s Desert Reclaiming Mining Towns
Image credits: Marsel Van Oosten
After 160 years , The Abandoned Paris Railways
Image credits: Pierre Folk
A Ship Nearly 100 Years Old in Sydney, Australia
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Roots Slowly Engulfing the Sidewalk Pavement
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Image credits: Wei-Feng Xue
Abandoned Mansion Overwhelmed by Foliage Near Kilgarvan, Ireland
Image credits: Sam Abell
Abkhazia’s Abandoned Train Station Lost to Nature , Georgia
Image credits: Ilya Varlamov
I.M. Cooling Tower Slowly Reclaimed by Vegetation, Belgium
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Kamchatka’s Fishermen Town Lost to the Sea, Russia
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Angkor Former Seat of the Khmer Empire, Cambodia
Image credits: Pietro Bevilacqua
Image credits: Brad Grove
Abandoned Hotel Now Sheltering Nature
Image credits: Matthias Haker
Ukraine’s Ghost Town , Pripyat Reclaimed by the Forest
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What do you think? We are thrilled and terrified at the same time by these abandoned places, the nature conquers and enhances it at the same time magnificently.