Sense of place creates both a oneness or connection with the
environment and with the people and local organisations who inhabit
those places. It is not something, which is acquired when you move into
a new area or suburb, it has to be cultivated. Like culture, sense of
place is changing and adaptive, not primordial and fixed. And just as
sense of place is not temporarily confined, so it is not geographically
limited to any specific rural or urban landscape. It has to be built in the
minds of the beholders and the dwellers in a particular place, and it has
to be built over time.
Carr (2002, p28)
Carr, A. (2002) Grass roots and green tape: principles and practices of environmental stewardship The
Federation Press, Leichhardt, NSW.