We build lines to move faster and connect places: cutting roads through mountains and stretching freeways across valleys. We draw lines to protect ourselves and make sense of our space: creating borders between countries and putting up fences between areas. We draw lines in the name of progress, and we seldom stop to think that while we are busy figuring out where to create the next lines, we may be stopping the progress of something else.

At the edge of the freeway, a mountain lion pauses. She’s confused and unable to follow the now unfamiliar path. Ahead, she sees the one she has always known, but has become unreachable. The traffic never stops along this new route. From the cat’s perspective, the infrastructure that…