If you PHYSICALLY owned your property, how far would that ownership extend? How far up into the sky would you own the air over it? How far down under the Earth would you own? Could you destroy your land and make it one giant hole in the Earth? If it was TRULY yours, you could. It's not though. You simply own certain RIGHTS to that land. That is what transpires when one purchases land or a home. You are purchasing the building and RIGHTS to the land it's on. That it all. You cannot physically OWN the land.