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Paramount
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Wed Mar 14 11:52:28 2018
The Broccoli Tree and the dangers of sharing photos of the places you love online

Landscape, wildlife, and adventure photographers (among others) will often keep their most treasured locations and subjects secret. And while this might seem rude or selfish or mean, the tale of The Broccoli Tree in Sweden—told beautifully in a recent vlogbrothers video by best-selling author John Green—explains exactly why this practice might also be necessary.

The Broccoli Tree, for those who aren't familiar, is (or was) a tree in Huskvarna, Sweden that somehow became social media famous.

Photographing this tree became a passion project of photographer Patrik Svedberg, and over the course of 4+ years, the tree gained quite a following on Instagram. In fact, it kind of became Insta-famous so-to-speak, accruing over 31,000 followers to date.

But Insta-fame comes with consequences in this day and age. No matter how beautiful or inspiring, no matter how much joy something brings to the general populace, there will always be those people who get some deluded self-satisfaction out of destroying it.

This is what happened to The Broccoli Tree.

One day in September of 2017, Svedberg went to photograph his favorite tree, only to find that someone had sawed one of the tree's branches almost all the way through. It wasn't long before the whole tree had to be cut down.

http://www...-of-the-places-you-love-online


I hate people.
Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 14:16:29 2018

This is one of my favorite trees. It is near Carmel California.

http://i.p...009d07b328c3be84f075dbaae7.jpg

Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 14:18:25 2018

Here is a giant redwood tree in California. It is one of my favorites too.

http://www...edwood-giant-drive-through.jpg

Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 14:21:15 2018

And my most favorite is on the front lawn of the only Royal Palace in The United States.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/90405793.jpg

Paramount
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Wed Mar 14 15:34:02 2018
Nice trees.
Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 15:57:46 2018

Thank you.

Unfortunately, I never got to see the Redwood. I went to Muir Woods once, but the Redwoods there are only two or three feet thick. It is a young forest.

Rugian
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Wed Mar 14 16:21:10 2018
Vandalism of art is nothing new. Poor David got his toe smashed back in the 90s.

Unfortunately, the only way to prevent acts like these would be to completely remove the object from public access. Which makes as much sense as banning guns because of the occasional nutjob.
Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 16:57:12 2018

Whoever said humans were smart?

Nimatzo
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Wed Mar 14 19:06:49 2018
When I was 14 was the last time I was in Iran. We visited the Takhte Jamshid ”Perspolis” ruins. Many of the rocks had been vandalized by various travellers ober the centuries, carved in their names and date. I even found a Swedish name from turn of the century. Narcissitic assholes, litter this world.
Aeros
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Wed Mar 14 19:13:18 2018
Only insane people and economists believe people are rational.
Hot Rod
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Wed Mar 14 19:15:28 2018

Did you hear about the scout leader destroyed a balanced (by nature) rock that had been balanced long before any human had ever seen it?

http://vid...63c77e773e56d677b&action=click

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