Frank links to "Unexpected Places: What is the place of learning?" entry of THE EXPERIENCE DESIGNER NETWORK. "Search for places of knowledge" reminded me a simple variant of this idea I read in Wendy Lesser's introduction to The Genius of Language. Quoting the words B. Brecht wrote in exile in California, she says:

Driving over the bridge to San Francisco, especially at dawn or twilight, I frequently look out at that familiar landscape and think of the lines from Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle about why one loves one's country: "Because the bread tastes better, the sky is higher, the air smells better, voices sound stronger, the ground is easier to walk on. Isn't that so?" Sometimes one understands the truth of things best through absences and lacks (as Conrad grasped English more tightly because it was discovered, not inherited).

I am not sure if this idea has a potential to develop into something more profound, but I'll set it up here, as a reminder for future musings.