Nature Wins!

In my travels across the country, whenever I come across an abandoned structure, it always makes me a bit sad. Those places devoid of human life have always made me feel that there's a story of failure or despair behind them. Someone who tried to make it and, ultimately, gave up and went elsewhere. But I was reading a story on the website Environmental Graffiti the other day that made me rethink the sadness factor.

Image by kimba

Yes, those abandoned buildings may well be the story of someone walking away from a life or even a dream, but there's another story there as well: the story of nature reclaiming what was hers in the first place. These places are often alive with greenery, a rebirth of the land over the artificial. Either way, there are stories in the making, and that's nice.

Here's the original article with some very nice images.