30 years later, still true

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum.
Then they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em.
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Joni Mitchell 1970 Big Yellow Taxi