Joe - you want a special use of words, check out Don's post on the "Sense of Place" thread. I praised it there and I'll praise it here; I'm telling you, that quote will outlast gca.com in its elegantly simple description of what gives a golf course that "sense of place".
Peter
(I posted on that thread too, but after reading Don's post I felt like the "other guy" who made a speech at Gettysburg, the one who took two hours to President Lincoln's two minutes and *still* didn't say a darn thing worth saying)