This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.

Today’s photo shows how successful nature is at reclaiming land when given the opportunity. The trees here have grown since the forest area ceased to be mined for coal, quarried for stone, and prospected for iron ore not quite a hundred years ago. The rise to the left of this photograph is the beginning of a fairly extensive spoil heap that’s been taken over by trees that are maturing beautifully. Unless a viewer knew the history of this forest, they’d never guess how industrial it was about a century ago. Nature, given its head, can take back the land we despoil, fortunately.

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I post every Saturday here, but also share a different picture of natural beauty at the end of most days, with the hashtag #ourworldiswonderful, on FaceBook, Threads, Instagram, and on the newer social media platform, BlueSkySocial. Join me there, and on LinkedIn.

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