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I Love Abandoned Places

I love the bittersweet feeling abandoned places give. How many hopes and disappointments grew among their walls? How many smiles and tears did they see? And now, humans have decided they are not useful for their petty interests and do not care any more about the places where their joys and sorrows happened.

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Mugin16 · 46-50, M

Now that humans do not care any more about these places, nature takes them back. Animals and plants will move in and make these places their home.

Cierzo · M

@Mugin16 Nature does not give, nature lends, and sooner or later takes back.

Mugin16 · 46-50, M

@Cierzo Indeed. Very wise. In the long run even the most impressive buildings and monuments will fall down, get destroyed, fall apart and nature takes it back.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

- Ozymandias by Percy Shelley