Rather than immersion in the locality where we now live, our mind and emotion are ever ready to shift to other localities and times, across the Atlantic or Pacific, to ancestral lands remote from direct experience. We can be dismissive of what is right before our eyes — the local McDonald's where our young children wolf down their hamburgers, the city cemetery where our parents were recently buried — in favor of some place at the other end of the globe where distant forebears lived, toiled, and danced.
— Yi-Fu Tuan, Cosmos and Hearth