It sounds like you consider the land to be separate and apart from the country or nation. Do words like родина or отечество have a connotation of an intimate r

It sounds like you consider the land to be separate and apart from the country or nation. Do words like родина or отечество have a connotation of an intimate relationship between the people and the land, though? In English, one synonym for indigenous is autochthonous, supposed to stem from Greek for literally "people arising out of the earth".