You can only love things in particular, not as generalities.
A landscape that you don't know, in detail, and understand, in detail, is merely "scenery"--a green blur. The green blur of the Amazon, the green blur of the Everglades, the green blur of the Canadian Rockies ... you might be momentarily thrilled, but this is to love as a one-night stand is to a 50-year marriage.
The Dalai Lama once advised a woman who asked if she should go to India to seek enlightenment: "If you want to find water, it's better to dig one 60-foot well than ten six-foot ones. Start where you are and dig deeper."
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