Adaptation scene 4: INT. WHITE VAN - CONTINUOUS

4INT. WHITE VAN - CONTINUOUS

John Laroche drives. He's a skinny man with no front teeth. The van is piled with bags of potting soil, gardening junk. A Writings of Charles Darwin audio cassette case is on the seat next to Laroche.

BRITISH NARRATOR

It is interesting to contemplate an

entangled bank, clothed with many plants

of many kinds, with birds singing...

Laroche tries to contemplate the plants and birds whizzing by. Almost too late, he spots the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve sign and makes a squealing right onto the dirt road turn-off. The cassette case flies from the seat and half- buries itself in an open bag of peat.