“Landscape means an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors.”

Any sacred place is an organized space. As an organized space, the [visitor] responds to it in particular autonomic ways. That affect is one of the recognition of power, sacred power, a power particular to place, which may or may not be intermingled with the recognition of that power as a sacred being.

A sacred place is enclosed, set-aside or set-apart space. It has a boundary. A correct point of entry obtains. The path to this place requires a separation of oneself from one kind of space to another, a space more animated, more intensified, more focused, centred. There is something we apprehend about that place that requires our attention.