NATURE-CULTURE

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LEARNING OBJECTIVE

Identify the influence of culture on physical geography and physical geography on culture.

People who depend directly on the land for their livelihoods—farmers, hunters, loggers, and ranchers, for example—often have a different view of nature from those who work in the offices, schools, factories, and shopping malls of the cities. Let’s now look at the relationship between nature and cultural differences and how different cultures and subcultures differ in their interactions with the physical environment.