r/BeAmazed • u/aryan_jandyal • 20h ago

Nature Ancient linden tree in the Czech Republic, estimated at up to 800 years old, this Giant Tree is deeply connected to the history of Kamenice nad Lipou. Even after being struck by lightning in 1824, part of its ancient trunk survived. A truly amazing wonder of nature.

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u/lorikeets_are_life 20h ago

This tree has seen dozens of generations walk by it. Crazy.

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u/zbud 2h ago

I've seen uber-impressive 350 year old +/- Live Oaks in South Carolina that approach this. However, this tree appears to be on another level...

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u/Mainly_Miserable 19h ago

This is like something right out of the LOTR, and I love it.
https://giphy.com/gifs/TcdpZwYDPlWXC

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u/Quizzy_MacQface 14h ago

Specially considering how often Tolkien inserted Linden leaves on his works, like in the ballad of Beren and Luthien.

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u/Traditional_Isopod80 19h ago

It looks like something from TLOTRs.

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u/TianaTatiana22 19h ago

I look at it and feel like I'm in Avatar 😳

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u/Doctor_Saved 19h ago

"That's a youngling." -Some random Great Basin Bristlecone Pine.

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u/Shonkazilla 19h ago

Does this tree have a name? Wikipedia page?

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u/Ambicious_Flamingo 16h ago

I haven’t found a name but it has a wikipedia page, atleast in Czech:

https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%ADpa_v_Kamenici_nad_Lipou

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u/_psylosin_ 17h ago

That tree is like “I’m so badass they kill other trees just to hold me up

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u/honeycherries3 17h ago

That might be the most amazing tree I've ever seen

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u/Mesmoiron 17h ago

Yes and the solution to support it with cruches is quite funny. If we want to know how longevity looks like we have fewer options because tree care has become fast tree fashion. Over management can never produce 800 year beauty 😍

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u/Fireball-196 14h ago

Beautiful old tree-mother nature is amazing, these supports are needed to preserve that branch it would have snapped off an died.- not everyone accepts conservation- but this seems the only logical way of saving such a Huge & heavy branch from collapse.

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u/fheqx 12h ago

Have we found an ent wife?

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 11h ago

I see all the support beams . It reminds me of elderly using a walker to ambulate.

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u/Maleficent_Sky_1865 8h ago

I didn’t realize Linden trees got that big!

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u/Training_Ruin_8404 1h ago

meanwhile, in Greece we have this olive tree that is estimated to be between 2000-4000 years old

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u/Greybur 19h ago

Awesome tree. Shame about the 20th century struts and the picnic benches. Kinda destroys the magesty of it all.

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u/shrug_addict 18h ago

Sometimes the old ones need a cane

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u/Greybur 18h ago

Only humans. The rest of nature does what it does unobserved.

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u/shrug_addict 17h ago

I get it, but I don't mind humans revering and protecting something ancient in nature.

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u/Greybur 17h ago

Why? If it's just doing it's thing by existing, then leave it be. We don't protect anything, we exploit it for money.

I guarantee you will find a shop selling fridge magnets within 100 metres of a 'historically spiritual' random piece of nature that just is.

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u/Xaendro 9h ago

I don't get what's your problem, they like the tree so they don't want it to fall

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u/Greybur 9h ago

Because I can be twat sometimes and the human intervention in this case looks wank. Mainly because I'm in twatty mood today though.

Cheers for sticking your oar in where it was neither needed or provided anything useful to the conversation love 👍

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u/Hriibek- 8h ago

Twat.

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u/Greybur 8h ago

Yep 😘

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u/eclecticaesthetic1 17h ago

If Trump was in charge for five minutes, he'd chop it down and put it through a shredder for a golf course.

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u/model-citizen95 17h ago

Look man, I hate the guy too but this is a video of a tree. Is nowhere safe from politics? Chill out for a minute man and just look at a tree. Shit, you might need to smoke some too

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u/StressFantastic5317 17h ago

Keep Drumpf away from it.

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u/paul616 12h ago

Can anyone smell cum?