In fact, the advocates of People's Park had asserted....

“ 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

From : Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters