"'Take this beauty into your heart, she urged, 'learn it. Some day you will only be able to see this with the eyes of your heart. Then it will be important for you to have the beauty inside of you. Memorize the land.' ... The most sacred place to us is invariably that which has been internalized ... To 'memorize the land' is to adhere both existentially and physically to the center of all the is Holy." p 73-74
A place has to be very important and special to be internalized. We are in hundreds of different places a day but to be held inside of us there has to be something significant about it. This quote is sad but true; we are so quickly changing the world around us to fit our needs that soon the sacred wilderness that we knew will be gone. Then, we will only be able to see it if it is internalized. To be close to the center of all that is Holy is to be close to God Himself. God is in the land and in the beauty of it. He created it just the way it is. If we memorize it the way it is, untampered with, then when it has been rearranged to suit the needs of man, we will still be able to have that closeness to God through that place.
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