It is sometimes said that in the eternal confrontation between man and nature, there is no winner. However, once there is a crack in a building, or a broken car stays unattended for a certain amount of time, we’ve all seen how vegetation immediately starts to seize control of it. Nature reasserts its grip.
Take a walk through the abandoned tunnels, ships, mansions and 20 other objects, which, though they were created by man, soon became part of the natural landscape. These are some thought-provoking images.
![A tree in a piano, California. nature can defeat civilization](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-tree-in-a-piano-California.-nature-can-defeat-civilization.png)
![Image by Romain JL](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/The-victory-of-the-trees-over-concrete-Hong-Kong..jpg)
![Image by messynessychic](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-railway-in-Paris-France..jpg)
![Image by Ethan Welty](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-bicycle-which-has-been-’eaten’-by-a-tree..png)
![Image by Jesse Rockwell](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-natural-aquarium-in-an-abandoned-shopping-mall-in-Bangkok-Thailand..png)
![Image by Jason Wallace](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/An-old-mill-in-Sorrento-Italy..png)
![Image by Kyle Telechan](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/An-abandoned-Ferris-wheel..jpg)
![Image by Rosanne de Lange](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-car-’cemetery’-Belgium..jpg)
![Image by Marsel Van Oosten](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/An-abandoned-mining-town-Namibia..jpg)
![Image by Pierre Folk](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-160-year-old-railway-in-Paris-France..png)
![Image by AndyBrii](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-100-year-old-ship-in-Sydney-Australia..png)
![Image by worldbeyondyourown](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-trees-root-spill-over-the-sidewalk.png)
![Image by Wei-Feng Xue](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Tree-roots-repeating-the-pattern-of-the-paving-stones-on-a-side-walk..jpg)
![Image by castlemaineindependent](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/The-abandoned-radioactive-city-of-Pripyat-Ukraine..jpg)
![Image by Sam Abell](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-forgotten-mansion-Ireland..png)
![Image by Ilya Varlamov](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-railway-station-Abkhazia..jpg)
![Image by brokenview](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-former-cooling-tower-Belgium..jpg)
![Image Pietro Bevilacqua](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ta-Prohm-Temple-Agkor-Cambodia.jpg)
![Image by Brad Grove](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Old-tree-roots-encapsulate-even-older-temple-ruins.-Image-taken-at-Ta-Phrom-near-Siem-Reap-Cambodia-HDR..jpg)
![A room in an abandoned hotel.](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-room-in-an-abandoned-hotel..jpg)
![Image by englishrussia](https://livingnomads.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/The-ruins-of-a-fishing-town-on-the-Kamchatka-Peninsula-Russia..png)