Heather Lees - Landscapes of the Sacred

Simone Weil had said in Landscapes of the Sacred that "to be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized of the human soul." Basically, what he was trying to say what that it is your own personal human nature that you will never reach a point where you are entirely satisfied with place. He also pointed out that if a person is deprived up place, that person will then make up places with their imagination. When thinking about this, it makes a lot of sense.

An example that he had used was that a child was deprived from being able to do certain things or go certain places. Using imagination to replace this missing piece that the child would have otherwise felt, his father and him pretended that they were doing these certain things or going to these particular places. Even though these memories are imaginary, the child still was able to experience a sense of place when it comes to these things and avoids them from feeling as if they were missing something from their childhood.