to love a person, place

This is from Kathleen Dean Moore's book The Pine Island Paradox.

In one chapter she reflects on these questions, What does it mean to love a person?  What does it mean to love a place?  And she answers the questions thus: "it means at least this: 1. to want to be near it, physically.  2. to want to know everything about it - its story, its mood, what it looks like by moonlight.  3. to rejoice in the fact of it.  4. to fear its loss, and grieve for its injuries.  5. to protect it - fiercely, mindlessly, futilely, and maybe even tragically, but to be helpless to do otherwise.  6. to be transformed in its presence - lifted, lighter on your feet, transparent, open to everything beautiful and new.  7. to want to be joined with it, taken in by it, lost in it.  8. to want the best for it.  9. desperately, and 10. to take responsibility for its well-being."