Bullfrogs and Polliwags

When I was a kid there was a pond that I would escape to. I would walk around it, enjoying the frogs, pollywogs, minnows, fish, birds, ect. I would talk to them about all kinds of things. They would just look at me and listen. I'd catch some to look at them. And let them go.

As time went by ,progress replaced it. My pond was gone. What happened? Could something different been done? Could I've done something?