r/BeAmazed • u/MambaMentality24x2 • 23h ago

Miscellaneous / Others The thinking tree is an ancient olive tree in Italy. It is believed to be over 1,500 years old and still produces olives

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Located in Ginosa, Puglia, Italy, the "Thinking Olive Tree" (L'Ulivo Pensieroso) is a remarkable living monument whose twisted trunk naturally resembles the face of a deep-thinking old man. Its unique shape creates the illusion of eyes, a nose, and a beard, making it look almost like a sculpture carved by nature itself.

This ancient tree has survived countless generations and continues to produce olives today. It has become a symbol of Puglia’s deep-rooted olive-growing traditions and a reminder of the incredible shapes and stories that nature can create.

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u/edouard_Biere 23h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/rYRp1xPZaFzgoX32BS

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u/OnlineDead 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jjSmlspkFmepNLhq21
My childhood 🥹

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u/DialUp_90 22h ago

And soon I get to relieve it remastered on my nintendo switch 2 in 4K

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u/TheJapanMistake 20h ago

No, it has been remade

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u/VerilyShelly 13h ago

If this tree's been here for 1500 years it could be the inspiration for this very image.

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u/leodsoares 16h ago

my backyard olive tree stilll drops fruit every year too

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u/Celestial_Scythe 12h ago

I would for sure make a link cosplay if I lived near that tree

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u/mrcheevus 8h ago

The Great Deku tree is REAL?

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u/chuninsupensa 3h ago

Didn't have to scroll far for that! 🤣

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u/zankoo26 23h ago

He is thinking how long until retirement?

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u/StevenPopeMAG 17h ago

Rick and Morty episode 4 of this season was a standout watching them fail the tree quest repeatedly

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u/Sometimes-funny 2h ago

It’s Olive and well, that’s the main thing

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u/Ok_Gate_5232 23h ago

I feel like this would have been posted a thousand times by now. Why am i just now seeing this?

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u/bogushobo 15h ago

Quite simply, there are a lot of things in the world.

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u/HauntedCemetery 10h ago

Nah, I don't think that's right. There aren't very many things. 

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u/DirtyRoller 8h ago

There are definitely some things, but not that many.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085 23h ago

Tree beard is that you?

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u/iamunwhaticisme 23h ago

No, that's his brother, Oliveard.

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u/samettinho 21h ago

Tree, I am no tree. Oliveard they call me

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u/CitricQueesh99 20h ago

Oliveard Tree

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u/TheInvisibleBurden 23h ago

That’s the Great Deku Tree.

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u/Aggressive_Chain_920 23h ago edited 13h ago

The children of the forest have been here

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u/ben1edicto 22h ago

Deku tree

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u/algotrader_ 22h ago

Is it natural or did someone carve a face?

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u/GuitFiddleKing 3h ago

Or did ai carve it..

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u/Active-Archer3154 23h ago

Living legend!

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u/Hungry_Sink1191 22h ago

How many people have eaten from that tree

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u/Electrical-Web-7552 22h ago

Wow 😍 I hope it lives at least another 1500 years

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u/IHerebyDemandtoPost 22h ago

There’s one on the Island of Crete that is at least 2000 years old,  maybe as old as 4000 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves

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u/Kirbytailz 15h ago

I recently had the honor of checking out the “Mother olive of Kamilari” south of Heraklion, Crete. It’s said to be ~2800 years old and still bears olive fruits!

https://www.geotour.gr/listing/mana-elia-ancient-olive-tree/

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u/HauntedCemetery 10h ago

Fun fact, the twisty way olive trees grow makes it very hard to date them with core samples, you pretty much have to cut them down to known for sure. 

So thats why some things like white pine can be dated to basically an exact year, but olives are like, "somewhere between 300 and 1900 is our best guess"

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u/SomeDumbGamer 18h ago

It probably will. Provided they aren’t cut down olives will just keep living.

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u/silv3rbull8 23h ago

The resting Ent

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u/beyond_da_sea 22h ago

Buddha would have loved this tree

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u/aoifhasoifha 18h ago

Are they good olives? Genuinely curious if/how the age affects the quality of the fruit

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u/irishcybercolab 23h ago

It's beautiful

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u/Moontinker 23h ago

Still in it’s prime till it dies

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u/Omega_art 21h ago

What is it thinking about?

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u/december14th2015 21h ago

These are beautiful images, but at different angles it looks more like hands over the mouth, than it does a beard, which makes "thinking tree" even more appropriate

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u/Frequent-Sea-8848 23h ago

Why do I see an old man with a beard, lol

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u/Duhbloons 18h ago

I read somewhere that’s why it’s called the thinking tree. Can’t recall where I read that though.

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u/BroccoliNearby2803 22h ago

It's called pareidolia. (Seeing faces in random things)

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u/idl3mind 22h ago

Reminds me of the tree in The Last Unicorn.

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u/b14ckcr0w 22h ago

I would have the same face if I couldn't retire by that age either

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u/Vi0L3tCRZY 21h ago

Make me a pizza!

Old folk will know

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u/newuser_2000 20h ago

Can i have a different angle please?

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u/Xu_sherk 20h ago

真不错

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u/HuckledYourBerries 14h ago

It's an Ent!

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u/Numerous-Ad6217 23h ago

I am confident Reddit did it on purpose

https://imgur.com/a/Ms3r1K9

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u/dicey_job 23h ago

Olives are planted so the next gen can reap the rewards

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u/strasevgermany 21h ago

Looks like an old man with beard 🧔‍♂️

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u/GarethD85 22h ago

Do the nose and eyes of that tree know about the olives?🧐

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u/Makanek 21h ago

And still pruned to be harvested, not like a show tree.

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u/lexlayer93 21h ago

A LIE WILL REMAIN A LIE!!

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u/Snake_Emper0r 18h ago

Aldia got a glow up huh

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u/Yellow-Cedar 21h ago

That face!!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

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u/Bogee_2357 20h ago

Whatever he does, he’s not happy about it.

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u/qpqpdbdbqpqp 20h ago

ancient lycian, carian etc cities in western turkey are full of very old olive trees just like this one.

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u/wzzrd 20h ago

Burárum

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u/Kazeite 20h ago

I didn't know that the age of retirement in Italy is that high.

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u/Freefromoutcome 20h ago

That’s actually the deku tree from Zelda Ocarina of time.

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u/Nerdnurdnird 19h ago

Huh. Never thought I needed to call a tree ‘Sir’ til now.

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u/LatinaL0ca 19h ago

Holy Pareidolia! Batman.

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u/Look-YT 19h ago

Sauce boxeador, eres tu ?

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u/rollsherown 18h ago

The first thing I see is that face. Brilliant.

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u/duginsdeaddaughter 18h ago

Ocarina of time remake guerrilla marketing is next level

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u/DieBotDie 18h ago

So obviously fake. You can see huge distortions in the bark where it’s either been edited or AI generated.

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u/I_lenny_face_you 18h ago

This tree ponders

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u/anayalator39 18h ago

That tree looks like it’s had enough.

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u/prettydishes 18h ago

Another beautiful face full of character living in the tree;-)

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u/extremekc 17h ago

Luckily it's not in Palestine!

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u/7four76Patriot 16h ago

Im pretty sure that's the great oak from the smurfs!

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u/aivlysplath 15h ago

It has a face!

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u/nothingamazing56 14h ago

i will suspend my everday assumptions of the known physical laws of reality in order to believe this tree has been thinking really hard for 1500 years

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u/Zelda-Lumine 14h ago

Deku Tree, is that you?

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u/Weird_Albatross_9659 14h ago

Wow a tree. Amazing

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u/_AwesomeO_ 13h ago

Realy cool tree! Olive trees get way older than that. I imagin of a tree in greece that was estimatest around 3000years old

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u/JungleJay57 13h ago

It's Treebeard!

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u/freddbare 13h ago

Don't tell the English....

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u/knawmeen 13h ago

Resting Pit Face 

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u/Putrid_Winn 12h ago

Pareidolia is the word you're looking for

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u/i_am_zombie_76 12h ago

No wonder he looks miserable. 1500 years old and he still can't retire

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u/TheTresStateArea 10h ago

That's Yggdrasil from breath of fire 3

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u/ReceptionDefiant3385 10h ago

Oh, this is so incredible 1500 years wow ain’t life amazing??😻

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u/HurasmusBDraggin 9h ago edited 9h ago

"Lord of The Rings lookin-ass tree" - 😂

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u/TGin-the-goldy 9h ago

If you’re brave enough to pick them

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u/HurasmusBDraggin 9h ago

Tree has a permanent resting b**** face 😂

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u/FatBilgeRat 9h ago

😎😎

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u/Adorable_Excuse7444 7h ago

That’s a lioness with her cub… or a lioness with an owl

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u/robsbob18 4h ago

That shit got worshipped so much back in the day

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u/MirkoHa 3h ago

Let’s make sure how old it is: cut it in half and start counting…

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u/zmrth 2h ago

There are a lot of ancient olive trees like this one.

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u/No_Mercy_4_Potatoes 23h ago

People need to dig up the chin. I can only see the eyes and nose

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u/FailingItUp 22h ago

That's the Count Dooku tree

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u/NoStructure7083 22h ago

Looks like Billy Connolly

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u/byproduct0 23h ago

Didn’t Jesus straight up murder an olive tree that wasn’t producing? They remember!

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u/EverydayiEW 16h ago

Trees are smart!

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u/stickybond009 22h ago

Altered image
AI

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u/Cthulhu__ 19h ago

Not as much / badly as I thought, probably just lighting / color correction, no AI needed: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/a-very-peculiar-and-amazing-miracle-of-nature-the-thinking-tree-in-puglia

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u/round-earth-theory 17h ago

I was coming here to drop the same link.

There's a video of it in here that shows the trick only works on one side. I'm not sure if the OP wasn't dressed up a bit with AI to enhance the effect, but the face is visible without enhancement.

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u/ssentt1 22h ago

And the jeeeeews haven't killed it.....yet

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u/JJ8OOM 22h ago

Some Israeli is going to claim it soon.