For Betty - and anyone else, too, planting herbs in easement

I can't find Betty's suggestion about planting herbs in easements.  However, I wanted to share  the book I am reading by Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault.  It is slow reading because the writing is so poetic, every turn of a word carefully chosen.  It violates every rule of today's "popular" writers.

For Betty, though, I stopped at a passage that so reminded me of her ,

"At first, Jean planted in the ravines, then in the laneways, along the edges of parking lots, places without obvious ownership, overlooked for years.  Then she grew bolder, planting at night in the selvage between curbs and pavement, between pavement and front lawns; rims, crevices, along civic fencing."
 

"Jean dug, wishing she had acres to upturn with only a trowel; the meditation of lifting the earth one scoopful at a time, submerged in thought, for hours moving toward an understanding that is at first merely visceral and then becomes conscious knowledge, as if only such physical action could bring the thought into words."

How's that for an unending sentence!

Dear Dk,
I will get this book. 
I hope that Jean is not carted off to some mental institution! 

My best love to you.
Love,
Betty

Wouldn't it be better to have a garden than a lawn? 
As far as plants along highways, the auto emissions would impede growth and I don't think I'd want to eat the produce.  In this case, flowers and trees are a good substitution.