Life In The Middle Of The Freeway

"There is something delightful about whizzing down the freeway at 70 mph (or better yet, stuck at a bumper-to-bumper pace) and noticing that on a stretch of pavement not meant for carbon-based life forms, plants are reaching with tender green shoots toward the sky, scrawny little flowers are blooming and small stands of grasses are blowing about as if they were miniature Kansas cornfields."