Trees that also want to live. An incredible story. (8 photo)

What would not have created human with the earth, nature has always been and will be stronger than people. No matter what we invent, no matter how we boast and call ourselves the navel of the earth, it grew through concrete and broke metal. Sometimes it seems that a person should not even enter this fight.

There used to be a large cemetery in St. Pancras church. In the 1960s, it became an obstacle to the expansion of the railway. The dead were reburied, and the tombstones turned out to be unnecessary. Young Thomas Hardy, the future writer, thought to put them all together near the young ash tree. The tree grew up, engulfing several tombstones, and now it is one of the attractions of London and the memory of the writer.

A long time ago, when the steam locomotive was no longer in the wonderland, but still preference was given to horse-drawn carriage, there lived an ordinary village boy. There were thousands of them in those distant days.

But one fine morning he received a summons from the military enlistment office, calling him to defend his homeland in the war.

And Malchishka went to that war, but before that he took a firm word with his faithful iron comrade that he would wait for him at the same place where they parted. And that word turned out to be an iron chain that chained the friend to the young tree.

Where and until this day is waiting for Malchisha, his faithful iron friend. This story happened in 1914 and that boy did not return from that war. A tree grew through an old piano in the forest park of Fort Ord and was a Monterey attraction for a long time. Unfortunately, not so long ago the wonder was destroyed by a drunken vandal.

Buddha’s head “grew up” in a tree near the Thai temple Wat Mahathat. The reason is that in 1767 the Burmese destroyed the city of Ayutthaya and this temple, which used to be a royal monastery, and then one of the heads of the Buddha statues, cut off and buried by them, miraculously nestled in the roots and broke out together with the growing tree.

Only the rusty ferris wheel remained from the old children’s attraction, through which a tree grew and not only grew, but also managed to grow old.

If you lean a bicycle against a tree and leave it there for half a century, something similar will happen. This bicycle was left in Gersbach in Germany with the intention of creating the illusion of the presence of the owners and possible thieves in the remote part of the cherry plantation. Too long parking led to the fact that the vehicle split and ate two neighboring trees.