In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine - that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction. Annette Kolodny
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In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted another version of what is probably America's oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land that is sensual, erotic, pleasurable in all its elements, accessible in all its aspects, not merely "out there," but in here, within the body. That is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification - enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction. The idea here is that when you live in harmony with nature you will be free to be yourself. Then the world becomes your playground where you can do all kinds of things.

Source: Lay Of The Land: Metaphor As Experience And History In American Life And Letters

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