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20+ Badass Trees That Refuse To Die No Matter What (Original Post) demmiblue Mar 2021 OP
Beautiful soothsayer Mar 2021 #1
Isn't nature persistent ? magicarpet Mar 2021 #2
These are incredible. Talitha Mar 2021 #3
When our hands Traildogbob Mar 2021 #15
Well put, Tdb. Thanks. TheRickles Mar 2021 #22
Wow!!!!!!! Demovictory9 Mar 2021 #4
Love it - thanks for this post. nt iluvtennis Mar 2021 #5
FANTASTIC shots! BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #6
Honey badgers of the plant kingdom Cirque du So-What Mar 2021 #7
Awesome. Sorta like Democracy. KPN Mar 2021 #8
Extraordinary! Thanks for posting. PatSeg Mar 2021 #9
Life will find a way! Martin Eden Mar 2021 #10
Wow!! 2naSalit Mar 2021 #11
Those are truly wowzers! 😲 Duppers Mar 2021 #12
When we are all gone. Mother Nature will waste no time taking her Earth back. Fla Dem Mar 2021 #13
Wow!! Those were quite amazing too! Duppers Mar 2021 #16
Utterly fantastic. Thanks for sharing. Goodheart Mar 2021 #14
astonishing and beautiful, thanks for posting. Hamlette Mar 2021 #17
Thanks for link! burrowowl Mar 2021 #18
Those are incredible! forgotmylogin Mar 2021 #19
Our Fred tavernier Mar 2021 #20
Wow Snackshack Mar 2021 #21
and the one growing on ?moss on the big tree branch! 😄 electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #24
I 💖🌳💖 Trees since I was a kid. Wow! Thx! electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #23
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Traildogbob

(8,758 posts)
15. When our hands
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 01:14 PM
Mar 2021

Release the strangling grip on the neck of nature, this planet will be amazingly healthy. Then God can sit back and marvel at his creation, after the cancerous parasite is abolished.
Many species of trees have NOT survived us. During 30 years teaching Forest Ecology at college, I have seen so many lose the fight against us. Not just harvesting, but insect and disease death that we transfer to biomes they should not be in. Kind of like us invading bat caves we should not be in.
We need so many John Muir's and Joyce Kilmer’s in positions of power to protect plant life. The NEW Interior leader is a great start. A little Native American respect for earth and plant life is the right direction. Trees will thrive without us. Without trees, ain’t gonna be no is.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
6. FANTASTIC shots!
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 12:06 PM
Mar 2021

That was so, so good. Thank you!

The tree growing out of the cleft in the rock looked very much like the Japanese plum trees that grow all over the place here. I can totally attest to their resilience and vigour.

When we moved into this house, many years ago, there was a stump of one right near the back fence. By the end of the following summer, a few suckers sprouted from the stump, and I decided to leave them and see what might happen. They turned into 5 stems of almost equal size, which is about the size of a small adult example of the type, and itthey grow in a very pleasing "bouquet" shape.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
16. Wow!! Those were quite amazing too!
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 01:15 PM
Mar 2021

Some were very sad, however. Humans make & leaves messes.

But "life will find a way."

👍

forgotmylogin

(7,530 posts)
19. Those are incredible!
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 02:05 PM
Mar 2021

That loopy palm tree - I wonder if that was one bent by hurricane weather and recovered. I remember reading when Universal Studios built Seuss Landing, they wanted unusual trees and transplanted some palms that survived the hurricanes and did this specifically for the unusual shape.


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