The Kotzker: If a person is not too connected to his land [צי פרבינדן] to earthliness [spellcheck x'ed that word but I'll ignore it], he doesn't need to go to the Beis Hamikdash to "see" Hashem. Wherever he is he can be close to Hashem.
An ignorant person is called an עם הארץ - a member of the "nation of the land". If a person doesn't know Torah, if he is not connected to spirituality, all he is left with is the earth.
