For almost the first time I had an experience of location, and of being where I belonged. Tony seemed to give me the earth; that is to say, he gave me what I had always missed, a relatedness to my surroundings, and I could breathe in peace, with no need to struggle. For this, then, I would have to exchange everything in the world that I had known, and that had been far too little to live on.

— Mabel Dodge Luhan, Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality, p. 228