No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

All places are distant from heaven alike.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is a great difference in the beholders.

The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

God gives all men all earth to love, But, since man's heart is small, Ordains for each one spot shall prove Beloved over all.

A place is nothing, not even space, Unless at its heart a figure stands.

All places are alike, And every earth is fit for burial.

Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate to. Americans ricochet around the United States like billiard balls.