The question is is landscape and place encoded in us? Do we have genetic preferences for certain types of places due to our huge ancestral imprints?  D.H. Lawrence had a lot of whacky ideas about landscape and character- he was convinced it shaped human being's perspectives and their proclivities. He basically says it was the light and landscape of the coast and sea that shaped the culture and art of Ancient Greece. What I am interested in is our affinities and their reappearance through generations.

For example one family line way back came from Dartmoor in Devon.

Another family line comes from the Isle of Skye.

and Isle of Lewis

My greatgrandfather takes his family from Pictou, Nova Scotia and Durham, New Hampshire

and settles in Point Reyes, Northern California.