N Scott Momaday

I hope you women reader's won't take offense to Momaday's use of the male nouns and pronouns.

Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth, I believe. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience, to look 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 noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk.

...as one would a lover (my words).

~ N Scott Momaday 
The way to rainy mountain