Anybody visited an overgrown ex-military base or closed surface mine?

Perhaps you've been on the train and seen some old overgrown place, concrete crumbling, pathways overgrown?
Nature will always come back, in some way, shape or form.
As the greenery returns, so inevitably will the wildlife......
Nature doesn't need politicians, except one day, when they will become part of nature rotting gently away in some hole..........