Trees and plants have a kind of flexibility that is both disturbing and inspiring. Left to their own devices they can wrap around objects and create strange works of unintentional art.
Properly pruned and cultivated they can be made into curious, compelling and useful shapes of all sorts.
Chandelier Tree is a three hundred foot Redwood tree in California which had a hole carved into it nearly a century ago. While such an intrusion on a magnificent tree would likely not be tolerated today at the time the novelty was considered worthwhile so that a car could pass right through a six foot hole at the base.
At many
historic ruins trees have, over time, integrated themselves into the broken remnants of ancient structures.
aesthetically it is hard to deny the impressiveness of time as seen through trees.
clipped from: weburbanist.com 
