Nothing Is Lost Lyrics

Timber operations are clearing great strips of our countryside

And this sort of thing is happening not only in England but all over the world

It is an essential raw material

One that we used to import in great quantities

Millions of tonnes a year

The demand for timber grows all the time bigger and bigger

But the supply grows smaller and smaller

We use plastics in every aspect of our lives

Engineering

The home

Decoration

Medicine

Art and games

Coal, vital to man and his industry

So vital that every year two hundred million tonnes of it

Are hewn and plastered, picked and shovelled

Two hundred million tonnes of it

And that means nearly anywhere in the wide world where coal is needed

In recent years

Britain's home food production has reached new records

Increased speed is the essence of mechanised farming

Hundreds of thousands of acres of moorlands and marshes, forests and hillsides have been cleared

Which machine power has played an essential part

For centuries, men have dug raw material out of the ground

Using increasingly modern machinery to get all that they want

But already, many of the natural storehouses are running low

Come

Let's travel into the future

What will we see?

The world we are now seeing is a vision

Sunshine

Trees

Hills and valleys

Flowers

And flowing streams

This world of tomorrow is a world of beauty

There is a world and many ways of life

There's life everywhere

The tracks we make are crossed by the paths of others, who know this world better than we do