The natural environments can influence culture in many different ways.
For example I live in a valley town with lots and I mean lots of orchards, vineyards, wineries, and farms. As a result of this, farmer's markets and fruit festivals are a large part of our culture. We have a honey festival, apple festival, peach festival, as well as lots of wine centered celebrations. Going to these events is part of our culture. (also the fruits and such from here are much sought after by tons of people so we get a lot of tourists for our fruit)
Since we are in a valley we are surrounded by mountains and national parks, it makes a very neat nature centered vacation destination. We have a national monument that is very good for hiking and mountain biking. One of our mountains is called the Mesa and has thousands of lakes on it which makes it quite a fishing location! The Mesa is also a place where hundreds of cows are grazed year-round.
All of this makes us a very outdoorsy community. Its not uncommon for someone to be out biking, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, swimming or working in the fields/orchards/vineyards pretty much every day.
(If you have ever had Olathe Sweet Sweet Corn or Palisade Peaches then you know that it's a big deal! If you need more info for like a paper or something you can research our county which is Mesa County, in Colorado)
