"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth.  He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as may angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it.  He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it.  He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind.  He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colours of the dawn and dusk."

N. Scott Momaday, as quoted in Barry Lopez's, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986), p. ix. 

"This is the basic paradox of existence.  Being fully open to the world, says Heidegger, is a matter of 'dwelling' in a place so as to unite the four essential facets of true human existence--earth, sky, gods and men.  Yet our being so often estranged from place means that we, tragically, are able to occupy the space without actually 'dwelling' within it as place."

From Belden C. Lane's Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality (London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), p. 29.

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